Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARRISON...
...pattern in Germany was similar, but performances were generally poorer -except for Wilma Rudoloh's new record clocking of 11.2 sec. in the 100 meters. Bespectacled Ironman Hayes Jones, 22, of Pontiac, Mich., recalled the days when versatile Harrison Dillard won his specialty-the 110-meter high hurdles-with ease, ran an excellent leg for the winning U.S. 400-meter relay team, then filled in for ailing Sprinter Paul Drayton and placed second in the 100-meter dash. Biggest surprise of the German meet: Sprinter Frank Budd's defeat in the 200 meters by Germany's Manfred...
...surprising Democratic primary election in Virginia last week, Albertis Sydney Harrison Jr., the state's personable, 54-year-old attorney general, won the party's gubernatorial nomination with ease as he whipped Lieutenant Governor A.E.S. Stephens, 60, by some 45,000 votes. Harrison will face only token Republican opposition in the general election next November...
What was surprising was that Harrison was the hand-picked candidate of aging Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 74, and the rumormongers were saying that the political nest, feathered so faithfully by Byrd over three decades, was falling apart. All of Byrd's oldtime cronies had either died or retired; the party was still scarred by a split over the methods of combating school integration; population was shifting away from Byrd's rural strongholds. The campaign itself was a bit fuzzy, since both candidates are solidly conservative. Stephens, a former Byrd disciple, had even written to the Senator...
...Julie Andrews, Sally Ann Howes, Pamela Charles, now Margot Moser; Rex Harrison, Edward Mulhare, now Michael Allinson...