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...into a backwater Watergate. A land of slash pines, Cyprus swamps and oldtime backroom politics, it has been the fiefdom of U.S. Representative Robert ("He-Coon") Sikes, who last year was stripped of a congressional subcommittee chairmanship because of financial misconduct. Taunton publicly charged that former State Senator George Tapper engaged in an "elaborate, corrupt political scheme" with State Representative William J. ("Billy Joe") Rish, Sikes and others to profit from intricate land deals at the public's expense. A state investigation turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, however, and a Gulf County grand jury exonerated everyone accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Robin Hood Of the Bench | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Burton and Tapper--Reflections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 14 - April 20 | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...bottom of the 13th saw another Lion uprising snuffed out. With the bags loaded again, Walsh fielded a tapper back to the box and flipped it to Williams at home, who then fired on to Hogan at first for the final...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Crimson Nine Tops Lions In Thirteen Innings, 6-2 | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

Trilogy or sixpack, it is a stunning example of pop crossbreeding: Soolaimon, for example, is a pulsating toe-tapper that Diamond terraces forcefully with one climax after another. In contrast are these tender lines from a children's chorus called Childsong that opens the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Tailor | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...well-varied dozen of the best new songs from his own publishing company (Window Music). One of them, Chuck Howard's porch-swinging serenade, I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way, has the stamp of a country classic, and Loser's Lounge is a toe-tapper that even city slickers should find a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Y'AII Come Hear Ringo | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

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