Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright young stars of the emerging Republican majority took a beating in the Texas senatorial race. Rep. George Bush, who received more money than any other senatorial candidate from the Republican National committee, was defeated by Democrat Lloyd Bensten, Bensten, who had to go great lengths to prove he was more conservative than Bush, had defeated liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary. President Nixon had been anxious to have Bush in the Senate, but except for the party label, Nixon will not be unhappy with the election of Bensten. Bensten received 55 per cent of the vote...
...LLOYD C. SCHUETTE Wauwatosa...
...Sonny finally got lucky. For the first time, he was sent to one of California's most liberal penitentiaries, the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi. The prison's superintendent is G.P. Lloyd, a penologist whose philosophy is "I trust everybody until they show me different." Lloyd got to talking with Sonny about music. In April of 1967 he let Sonny start a prison band and chorus. Sonny called the group the Fallen Sparrows, and Lloyd decided it should be allowed to travel the state and perform...
There was no legal provision for such a move, so Lloyd invited his boss, R.K. Procunier, California Director of Corrections, to audition the Sparrows. Procunier liked them so much he started crying. Since then, Sonny and the Sparrows-a chorus of 45 or more and a 15-man band-have made the rounds of the prisons, taped a television show in Bakersfield, played at high schools and colleges, Air Force bases, conventions, even a county fair...
When the group performed at U.C.L.A. last November, moans Lloyd, "they had to walk, 80 of them-men in for charges ranging from drugs up to murder -a quarter-mile across a campus milling with students. We only take seven guards. Any number could have just walked away. But nobody ever...