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...last November, Thelma outdid herself. She had watched restlessly as Governor Carroll, a Presbyterian lay preacher and political gadfly, proved so prone to travel that he became known as "the Flying Deacon." She also felt he had failed to provide solid leadership on tax cuts over Kentucky's ineffective legislature, which meets only 60 days every two years. When the legislature left Frankfort without doing anything to soothe the state's increasingly irate taxpayers, Thelma started watching the Governor's schedule. Aha, she spotted a trip. She polished her plans...
...received important help from Jones in his close 1975 election, appointed him to the city's housing authority in 1976. (Said the mayor about last week's horror: "I proceeded to vomit and cry.") The sheriff and district attorney were temple visitors, but Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally outdid them all by dropping in on the 27,000-acre plantation in Guyana that Jones had acquired...
However, it was freshman goaltender Wade Lau who outdid veterans and newcomers alike. Lau had 29 saves, and showed the promise of handling the net chores with poise and experience for the next few years. He refused to commit himself against breaking shooters all evening, and thoroughly frustrated clever forwards such as P.C.'s Colin Ahern, who Lau personally foiled five or six times from point-blank range...
...swimming pool, flanked by bouquets of roses and magnolia blossoms, at Billy Carter's place north of Plains. To the strains of the wedding march, Billy and his daughter Jana strode over a bridge built across the pool for the occasion. The bride wore white. Billy outdid the swans in his ruffled shirt and his pale, cream-colored tuxedo with brown piping and a broad brown stripe down each trouser leg. His hair is rapidly turning gray now, and he wept a little as he gave his 18-year-old daughter away to 19-year-old Johnny Theus...
...final outcome was all Cowboys, as the Doomsday II defense outdid the Bronco I offense, and Dallas brought home their second world championship, overcoming a contest of miscues for a 27-10 victory...