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...demonstration of how such teamwork pays off. The track was soft and spongy as the qualifying runs began, so Bettenhausen, like his rivals, had geared his car low to reduce skidding. But when he finally made his own run the surface had turned clay-hard. Tony had Mechanic Tiny Worley hike his gear ratio for the fast track. When the starting flag dropped, he roared away from his lower-geared competition, won the event going away...
...Texas elected its first Republican Congressman in 19 years and the fourth in its history. In a special election in the Panhandle, likable Ben Guill, 40, of Pampa, onetime lieutenant in the Navy, won over ten Democrats seeking the seat of Representative Eugene Worley, 41, also a Navy veteran, who resigned to take a judgeship. Guill got only 8,000 of the 35,000 votes cast, but the rest were shredded among his Democratic opponents. "I'm no intellectual giant and I don't have any ideas about going to the capital and changing up the Government," said...
...WORLEY Scottsboro...
...Britain's plight increased the apprehension over sagging exports. Alarmists like Texas' Representative Eugene Worley, former chairman of a congressional subcommittee on foreign trade, suggested banning British films in the U.S. Said Worley: "Today it is films, tomorrow it might be wheat, cotton or beef...
Boomerang? At least part of Hollywood's movie community was not nearly so angry as Representative Worley. There were many, particularly among independent producers, who considered the Johnston Office's action too rash. A prolonged dearth of U.S. films, they thought, might give the British industry an opportunity to cop the home market for good...