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...This is Claude Kirk, Governor of Florida. Do you read my press? Then you know that I'm a tree-shakin' son of a bitch...
...just sellin' orange juice," Kirk smiles ingenuously. "Sellin' orange juice, sellin' Kirk, sellin' Florida. People are payin' attention...
...been hard not to. In the eleven months since "GoGo" Kirk, 41, took office, hardly a day has passed without Page One pictures and stories about him in Florida's press. Whether wooing and marrying German-born Beauty Erika Mattfeld, 33, running his 37-foot sloop aground in mirror-calm seas off Miami, or facing down Rap Brown at a Black Power rally in Jacksonville, the fleshily handsome Governor has always been ready with a colorful quote or bizarre gesture to enhance his swinging image. His travels out of state in a private Lear jet have averaged...
Egostatism. There never has been any doubt that Kirk is among the quick. But is he for real? Says a former business associate: "He is a complete political huckster, a phony and a very dangerous man." To Bill Baggs, editor of the Miami News, "Kirk appears to be the only man in Western civilization who has more answers than there are questions." The Miami Herald refers to him as "Claudius Maximus...
...five-man committee acting with the encouragement of about 150 Columbia faculty members who voted their wishes at a faculty meeting, reversed its own earlier decision. The board reported to President Kirk on Nov. 8 that it found no significant reasons to change Columbia's traditional policy of open recruitment for all outside agencies...