Word: sanford
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Stayed Democratic with lots of machine help. Early convention Kennedy supporter Terry Sanford won governorship after a tough campaign. Got 115,000 plurality...
...candidates who crisscrossed North Carolina from the Tennessee border to the Atlantic in pursuit of the Democratic nomination for Governor were at opposite poles on the issue of race relations. Stocky former State Senator Terry Sanford, 42, had led a field of four in the first primary last month by soft-pedaling his own segregationist sympathies, pushing instead an ambitious program of building schools and luring industry. His runoff opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration...
Last week North Carolina's voters held to their traditionally independent path, gave Sanford a 77,000-plus majority and a clear mandate for moderation as the state's next Governor. Sanford, manager of the late, liberal Senator Kerr Scott's successful campaign in 1954, had painstakingly built the smoothest county-by-county organization seen in three decades. Endorsed by most of the state's newspapers, he appealed to city folk and labor unions as a protector of the public schools ("We need massive intelligence, not massive resistance"), attracted Piedmont bankers and textile manufacturers with...
With the championships approaching, Cornell's Coach Harrison ("Stork") Sanford had a varsity crew that rowed as though its shell had a lead keel. Cornell had raced only once this year, finishing a poor second to Navy over a short course. Indeed, Sanford's varsity could not even beat the Cornell junior varsity crew; the jayvees twice won practice races last week by three lengths. To Sanford, there was only one logical answer: he made the jayvees the varsity, keeping only one man from the old crew...
...stripped off his shirt, gave it to Cornell's Stroke Harry Moseley in a traditional ceremony. It was the first jersey Boyden had lost since high school, and he promised that he would win a Cornell shirt after the Olympic trials in July. But Cornell's Coach Sanford is just beginning to develop his young bunch. Said he: "We still have to learn how to sprint. I'm positive this crew of mine is far from its peak...