Word: jim
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...Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable restraint during last year's voting-rights demonstrations, was elected sheriff over Incumbent Jim Clark, whose brutal treatment of Negroes shocked the nation...
Nowhere in the South was victory sweeter for the Republicans than in Arkansas, where Winthrop Rockefeller, 54, had to overcome both political tradition and a barrage of personal slurs by Democrat Jim Johnson, 41, a ranting segregationist who helped make the campaign one of the nation's dirtiest. Rockefeller, who gave Democratic Governor Orval Faubus a scare in the 1964 election, loosened up his campaign style, tightened up his party's fledgling apparatus, and let Jim Johnson undo himself. In the process, the nascent Arkansas G.O.P. elected its first Lieutenant Governor and its first U.S. Congressman in modern times...
Anybody who tuned in late to last week's Notre Dame-Duke game must have wondered where the first-string went. Would you believe a Notre Dame backfield composed of Belden, Wen-gierski, Lamantia and Kelly? Well, Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour (TIME cover, Oct. 28) were in there for the first half. Quarterback Hanratty completed eight out of 13 passes for 127 yds.; and three of those tosses-one for a touchdown-went to Seymour, who had obviously recovered from the sprained ankle he suffered two weeks before against Oklahoma. Muscling up for this week's collision...
...players were omitted from the All-House football team yesterday through a typographical error. They are Jim Thomson, offensive back, and Pete Zimmerman, defensive end, both of Leverett...
...winning play is based on the unlikely life-story of Jim Fisk, whose remarkable coups in the world of finance culminated in his death-by-duel in 1876. Prince Erie will be the first musical (or semi-musical) to win the Anderson award...