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...should win the shotput, pole vault, hammer throw, and high jump, seems likely to take the javelin, discus and broad jump. But South Africa's Mai Spence is rated the world's best in the 400 meters by Europe's experts, and Jamaica's George Kerr will be the man to beat in the 800 meters. Jim Beatty in the 5,000 meters and Dyrol Burleson in the 1,500 meters give the U.S. its strongest candidates in years, but both will go to Rome as long shots against European and Russian distance...
Last week North Carolina's voters held to their traditionally independent path, gave Sanford a 77,000-plus majority and a clear mandate for moderation as the state's next Governor. Sanford, manager of the late, liberal Senator Kerr Scott's successful campaign in 1954, had painstakingly built the smoothest county-by-county organization seen in three decades. Endorsed by most of the state's newspapers, he appealed to city folk and labor unions as a protector of the public schools ("We need massive intelligence, not massive resistance"), attracted Piedmont bankers and textile manufacturers with...
...impetus came last fall from Oilman Dean A. McGee (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries), who has long been concerned with improving his state's educational standing. "Industry today goes where it can find knowledge and skill," says McGee, and he wants industry to find those commodities in Oklahoma. When his ideas brought no response from the football-prone University of Oklahoma, McGee turned to neighboring O.C.U. and struck academic oil. An O.C.U. trustee himself, he organized a steering committee of ten other businessmen and O.C.U.'s enthusiastic President Jack S. Wilkes. After a survey of the school...
Another result of the vote: Oklahoma's 29 votes in the Democratic National Convention will go to Kerr's friend, Texas' Lyndon Johnson, and Kennedy-leaning Governor Edmondson will be on the delegation only if the old-line politicos decide to let him go along for the ride...
...Walter Kerr, 46, onetime drama professor at Catholic University and since 1951 theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune, who reads all scripts, adapted Oedipus Rex for Omnibus, is now adapting Richard Marsh's The Datchett Diamonds for the new classical mystery series, which he thought up. Kerr would like to do the historical plays of Shakespeare, in order, on consecutive nights, from King John to Henry VIII, is meanwhile having a rough time finding a Sherlock Holmes story for the mystery series because A. Conan Doyle's plots were so "simple-minded...