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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed a $300 million road-widening program last spring. Democrat Burns, 53, a former mayor of Jacksonville whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond issue by a humiliating 5-to-3 margin...
Fast in the wake of John F. Kennedy: Man of the Sea and not so far behind the memoirs of Artie Schlesinger and Ted Sorensen comes yet another, My Life with Caroline and John-John, the chatty monologue of Maud Shaw, who was the Kennedys' faithful English nanny for seven years. She retired last spring, vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking...
Bread & Butter. On the very first play from scrimmage, he caught a little flare pass and galloped 30 yds., leaving Giant defenders strewn in his wake. Over the next 45 minutes, Brown scored three touchdowns, and each was something to see. On the first, he started toward right end from the 3-yd. line, abruptly cut back, and while the Giants were twisted into pretzels, he literally walked across the goal. He ran 4 yds. straight through Giant Safetyman Jimmy Patton for his second TD, and his third brought satisfying animal growls from the throats of Cleveland fans. With...
Indoor & Outdoor Sports. But Operation Match also produced more than its share of fun dates. At Harvard, a varsity swimmer and amateur astronomer was desperately looking for someone who 1) would time his laps in the pool, 2) be willing to wake up at 3 a.m. to watch comets with him. The computer digested his questionnaire, squeezed out just the right ticket-a lithe, auburn-haired Radcliffe girl who was "fed up with Harvard pseudo intellectuals," wanted someone who "enjoyed sports, both indoor and outdoor." They are now going steady...
Scouts and college representatives called Peters frequently last spring. Ten colleges, including West Point, Wake Forest, and Yale, contacted him. Harvard alumni in Buffalo bought him a plane ticket to Cambridge "to have a look around...