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Richard L. Leary Springfield...
...running for Governor against Incumbent Dan Walker and former northern Illinois District Attorney Jim Thompson. "I think I'm almost a shoo-in," asserts Williams, a conservative Democrat whose platform calls for busing teachers instead of pupils and moving the state capital from Springfield to Chicago because "Springfield is a dog place when it comes to restaurants." This week he hopes to get Brother Tennessee's endorsement at a press conference. "He cut me out of his will," says Dakin, "but we are back on good terms." Tennessee, however, says that he opposes most of his brother...
...brown Araucana called Hawkeye, and he is owned by John Lynch, 12, of Mount Pulaski, Ill. After a lot of urging and grimacing, John last week persuaded Hawkeye to crow 69 times within a half-hour, 26 times more than his nearest rival at the state fair in Springfield. In Georgia, meanwhile, they are still talking about the new tobacco-spitting champion, Mrs. Marie Davidek by name. "You wouldn't believe it," said Bob Anderson, manager of the 25th annual Georgia Mountain Fair. "Here was this nice little old lady from Flint, Mich., all dressed up like a grandmother...
...Schorr rushed the retired Air Force officer onto the network's Morning News for his disclosure, which generated sensational headlines. But last week, when Butterfield denied Prouty's charges and hinted he might sue him for libel, the colonel, in an interview with his hometown paper in Springfield, Mass., expressed second thoughts. Then Prouty confused matters further with a switch back to his original story. This jack-in-the-box behavior roused questions not only about Prouty's reliability but Schorr's as well...
Closed Door. Awaiting the board is a logjam of problems such as those at C.R.L.A. Many local programs have limped along for four or five years with no funding increases. In Springfield, Ill., the legal-services group has had to pass up a number of legitimate suits because it could not afford them. In Seattle, an open-door policy for walk-in business has been closed down in favor of appointments as a way to cut the number of clients...