Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM BROCK III, 40, Republican, Tenn., is handsome and earnest, a wealthy candy manufacturer who describes himself as a "staunch individualist." He attacks the status quo, marking himself as a new kind of moderate Southern conservative. Three House terms on the Banking and Currency Committee have made economic policy his primary concern, and he will generally back Nixon in this area...
JAMES EARL RAY. Officially, he is just another state prisoner in cellblock C at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary n Petros, Tenn. But Warden Lewis Tollett keeps a special eye on the man who is serving 99 years for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and vows that he will never escape. Indeed, Ray, 42, would need a miracle to bust out of Tennessee's only maximum-security prison, a stark structure of white stone in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, where inmates used to dig coal round the clock for 25? a ton. Things are far better...
Died. John Jay Hooker Sr., 67, noted Tennessee lawyer who as a special Government prosecutor in 1964 succeeded in convicting Teamster President James R. Hoffa for jury tampering; of a heart attack; in Franklin, Tenn. Hooker's death preceded by two days that of Jacques Schiffer, 62, longtime Hoffa attorney and a defense counsel in the same trial; of cancer; in Chicago...
...Knoxville,Tenn.,free buses with red-suited drivers carry shoppers from free parking lots to downtown department stores, five blocks away. In Cincinnati, retailers offer "breakfast with Santa" and let kiddies choose between a black St. Nick and a white one. To seduce the shoppers, stores across the U.S. are resorting to unprecedented gimmicks and highly unusual pre-Christmas sales on everything from housewares to Teddy bears...
...committee vote was 8-4 in favor of the aid package that authorized funds for Cambodia, South Korea, and Vietnam. Voting against the proposal were committee chairman J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.). Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), and Albert Gore (D-Tenn...