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...Fervor, the Religion." Barry was abloom in the South. Florida's Democratic candidate for Governor, Haydon Burns, said last week that he would not campaign for his party's national ticket, and added: "I expect the Republican candidate will have strong support in Florida." Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithan ad mits that he may well decide to back Barry. The recent Mississippi Democratic convention was filled with pro-Goldwater sentiment. Georgia's Democratic Senators Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge both predict privately that today Barry could carry their state. Pollster Sam Lubell discov ered last...
...Ultimatum. Now enter W. (for Willie) Haydon Burns, 52, six-time mayor of Jacksonville and currently a candidate for Florida's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, who went on local television to deliver a stern ultimatum. "There will be no more demonstrations like last week," he declared. "They will not be tolerated." At the same time, in his capacity as police and fire commissioner, Burns deputized Jacksonville's 496 firemen as special police...
...whose amateur tennis fortunes have sunk abysmally low in recent years. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffit, 19, an impudent elf from California, trounced Australia's No. 2-seeded Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next, little Miss Moffit was the darling of Wimbledon last week...
...Australians. Only in the ladies' division did the U.S. shine. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffitt knocked off Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the tournament's biggest upset (TIME, July 6), went all the way to the quarter finals before losing to Britain's Ann Haydon. And in the finals, San Antonio's No.8-seeded Karen Hantze Susman, 19 years old and recently married, made short work of Czechoslovakia's Vera Sukova, 6-4, 6-4, while her proud husband, a college student, watched happily from the stands...
...dependable Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif., the U.S. national amateur tennis championships would have been a complete misnomer. The only American to get past the quarterfinals, Darlene beat Britain's Ann Haydon at Forest Hills, N.Y., 6-3, 6-4, for her second straight title. In an all-Australian men's final, the fifth in six years, Roy Emerson pulled a major upset, routed top-seeded Rod Laver...