Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peabody has garnared other honors this year. After the Yale game he was given the Henry N. Lamar award for his contributions to the football program. His classmates also elected him First Marshall for the Class of 1977 last month...
TIME described its original list as "a fallible selection," and in some ways it was. One of the 200 is now in jail for income tax evasion (New York City Councilman Matthew Troy). Some lost elections-but are doing well in other pursuits (Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, who lost the 1974 gubernatorial race to Democrat Ray Blanton, is now a television commentator; Minneapolis Mayor Albert Hofstede, edged out by Charles Stenvig in 1975, is a bank vice president...
...negativism of the hard core, is not getting across. "We have done an absolutely rotten job of selling ourselves," says Washington's G.O.P. Governor Dan Evans. "We are spending too much time arguing over what part of the political spectrum we are in?giving too many saliva tests." Lamar Alexander, Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 1974, complains that the party has not been as effective as Jimmy Carter in "expressing conservative life-styles and personal values." Political Analyst Kevin Phillips agrees: "A lot of practical conservatives could support Carter. He has a cultural appeal to the New Majority...
...venting his dudgeon, state prison authorities and other officials were privately welcoming the Johnson order. Alabama's prisons are so bad that the state's counsel had admitted last August that conditions violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. 'Concedes Robert Lamar, the Montgomery private lawyer representing the state of Alabama: "Many of the things the judge ordered are things the department of corrections has wanted to do for 50 years and couldn't because it was hamstrung by a lack of funds." Still, Lamar will appeal Johnson's ruling...
Says Kansas City Chiefs Owner Lamar Hunt, football would become "complete bedlam...