Word: thurmond
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Married. Strom Thurmond, 66, U.S. Senator and former Governor of South Carolina, who rallied Southern support for Richard Nixon in last year's presidential election; and Nancy Moore, 22, a blue-eyed brunette beauty (Miss South Carolina of 1965), who met the Senator two summers ago while working in his Washington office; he for the second time; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Aiken...
Meanwhile, speculation arose as to why, if the accusations are accurate, Nixon chose that course. One theory is that Nixon was trying to force Johnson to drop the Goldberg proposal. Neither Nixon nor some of his conservative al lies, such as Senator Strom Thurmond, want a liberal like Goldberg leading the court. On the other hand, this argument also suggests that Nixon does not want as one of his first official acts the task of withdrawing the nomination. To do so could incur the wrath of Goldberg's Democratic supporters in the Congress, legislators whose cooperation Nixon urgently needs...
...summers ago, Nancy Janice Moore, South Carolina's entry in the 1965 Miss America contest, spent four weeks in Washington as an intern in the office of her state's Senator Strom Thurmond. Last week, her parents announced her engagement to Thurmond...
Unlike the Big O, the Big E was assigned by the Rockets to fight it out beneath the backboards, where the Greco-Roman infighting has undone many a rookie. "Elvin, don't go in there and get yourself hurt," cautioned the San Francisco Warriors' Nate Thurmond...
...every issue, Haddad and Innis will debate in separate editorial columns. "As the crescendo of black-militant demands rises," writes Haddad, "it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the old-fashioned Strom Thurmond segregationist policy of 1948 and the modern Roy Innis separationist philosophy of 1968." Retorts Innis: "This society is racist and won't change." Nevertheless, the two have some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They...