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Moderates in North Carolina and Tennessee have been a decisive force instate elections for some time. In Georgia, the moderate candidate, Carl Sanders, defeated conservative former Governor Marvin Griffin in the 1962 gubernatorial lections and moderate-turned-lately Peter Zack Geer was elected lieutenant governor. The moderates at the same elections aided in the removal of the incumbent and arch-conservative U.S. Congressman James C. Davis, replacing him with liberal Charles Weltner...
...major championship: the $100,000 Daytona 500, by carefully conserving his fuel supply and wheeling his 1963 Ford sedan around the banked asphalt track at an average speed of 151.566 m.p.h. Lund earned the ride in the Ford when he risked his life to pull its intended driver. Marvin Panch, from the flaming wreckage of a Ford-engined Maserati during a practice run. The badly burned Panch asked that Lund be allowed to take his place as a reward. Lund's share of the prize: $10,720, 10% of which he gave to the hospitalized Panch...
...Marvin Milton, who represents Alpert's neighbors, stated that it would be legal for the Alpert retinue to stay in the home as "an association of persons living in a common dwelling" with the approval by the Council of Aldermen of Newton. Milton strongly doubted that the council would ever grant this approval, however. Predicting "we will win the war ultimately," Milton said he expected Alpert to appeal the case again if it is decided against...
...them put up the sideshows anywhere they want," said Marvin Leonard. ''They'll still want to come into the main tent, and this is it." The Leonards set out to solve the problem on their own. And last week they proudly opened a private, mile-long, $500,000 underground subway, running between parking lot and store...
...customers back, but provided a slow and hot ride. Obediah thought of a subway. The Leonards acquired five old Washington, D.C., streetcars, spiffed them up with stainless steel and new seats, installed air conditioning, and carved a double-track tunnel between store and Jot: This week the M (for Marvin) & O (for Obediah) subway-"the first subway south of the Mason-Dixon line"-began service, delivering as many as 500 passengers every 3½ minutes to the store's basement. Price per ride: nothing...