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Mahoney, Sickles, and Finan were the main contenders. There were five others though, including Clarence Miles -- another open-housing opponant -- and Andrew J. Easter -- who wore a Santa Claus beard and an Uncle Sam suit, and whose platform called for "making everyday Christmas." Easter, who runs in every election he can, didn't get too many votes. Clarence Miles polled about 30,000. Finan got 134,000. And Mahoney got 146,000 -- 1600 more than Sickles...
...exasperation, seven committee Democrats have been plotting their revolt against the chairman since midsummer. When Powell got word of their plans, he denounced the uprising as a racist conspiracy, aiming his angrier invectives at Florida's Sam Gibbons, 46, a Democrat with an unimpaired liberal record who has had to assume responsibility for the antipoverty bill in Powell's absence...
Nobody had to. Dirksen got expected support from most Republicans and Southern Democrats, but he ran into a formidable obstacle in the form of North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, whose concern for the Constitution rivals Dirksen's passion for prayer. "For God's sake," bellowed Ervin, "and for freedom's sake, let us not vest arbitrary permission power in school boards." When the vote came, Dirksen never really had a prayer. Though he won a 49-to-37 majority, he fell nine short of the two-thirds margin required to amend the Constitution...
Practically everybody on the Jets had a hand in the slaughter. Outweighed by 70 Ibs., Guard Sam DeLuca neutralized Houston's 315-lb. Defensive Tackle Ernie Ladd so effectively that Ladd spent the entire fourth quarter on the bench. Cornerback Johnny Sample picked off two Oiler passes; Middle Linebacker Al Atkinson contributed nine tackles. And Namath, untouched by Houston hands behind a ring of "fantastic" blockers, picked the Oilers' secondary to shreds...
Radclyffe Thompson, Sam Schippelbaine, and Steve Kelso (no kidding) -- this unlikely trio could give the Harvard cross-country team real trouble when it travels to New York today...