Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CORTEZ AND THE LEGEND (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Kirk Douglas narrates the epic of Hernando Cortez's conquest of Mexico. Cameras retrace the route taken by Cortez and his band from Tabasco, where they landed in 1519, to Mexico City, site of Montezuma's Aztec capital, which they destroyed...
...Claude Kirk, 41, a Florida businessman and political tenderfoot, got himself elected last November as the state's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. Last week, in a special legislative election necessitated by redistricting, Kirk led the G.O.P. to a position of power unprecedented anywhere in the modern South...
...shift was all the more surprising in that Kirk has had little opportunity to build a positive public record-though he has certainly attracted plenty of attention. Upon being elected, he vanished on vacation, reappearing with an eye-popping blonde fiancée named Erika Mattfeld. They were married Feb. 18 under guard of state troopers armed with tommy guns. His most flamboyant gesture came in his oft-declared war on crime. Kirk recruited a big private-detective agency to spearhead his offensive, and although its accomplishments so far have been nil, Floridians can talk of little else-some officials...
...dismiss Kirk as merely a swinger who got lucky may be underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were...
...last week's election, Kirk declared: "We're going to clean out the old crowd and bring in a new crowd. It's bad from bottom...