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During a speech at the University of North Carolina, members of the Tarheel student body thought they detected a familiar ring. Scheduled to speak on "Freedom and the Welfare State," Right-Winging William F. Buckley Jr., 37. instead read an article he had written for Playboy, in which he paeaned his own brand of conservatism, scourged left-leaning Author Norman Mailer, and cast doubt on the virility of Critic Kenneth Tynan. Agreeing that Buckley had used his text once too often (his fee was $1,000 for the same lecture in Chicago, another $3,500 from Playboy}, the speech...
Springlike Tarheel vigor was at work last week from Kitty Hawk to Cherokee, from missile plant to church pulpit, reshaping a landscape once principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center...
...university had infected Hodges with an urge for public service. He took war leave to head the Office of Price Administration's textile division, spent two postwar hitches (1948, 1950-51) supervising U.S. aid in Germany. In 1952, urged by a business friend, he surprised Tarheel politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest...
Captain Dale Junta unexpectedly started at first singles, handily defeating North Carolina's ace, Bob Bortner, 6-4 6-4. Junta wore a corset to help support his injured back, and although he was not playing at his peak, his big game was too good for the Tarheel captain...
...other Crimson singles victory was achieved by Fred Vinton over Dick Make-peace at sixth position. Vinton lost the first set, 6-1, but soon warmed to the task as he took the next two, 6-3 and 6-1. Ben Keys scored the only Tarheel triumph, defeating Al Goldman, 10-8, 6-0. In an unofficial match, Bill Wood outfought North Carolina's Walker Lockett...