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...parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around the track. Last May he was in Darling ton, S.C., to watch Son Richard break his record by winning victory No. 55 of his career. And last week he was back in Darlington cheering from the pits as Richard won his 21st race of the year, the Southern 500, at a record speed of 130.4 m.p.h...
...South Carolina's Ned Jarrett: the accident-plagued Southern 500 stockcar race, averaging 115.8 m.p.h. in his 1965 Ford despite an overheated engine; at Darlington, S.C. Breakdowns eliminated all the other big-name competitors, and Jarrett coasted home eleven laps ahead of his closest pursuer...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A preview of the Clay-Liston fight, the Miami-Nassau powerboat race from Miami and the Rebel 300 stock-car race from Darlington...
Chilling Unionism. When the NLRB appealed to the Supreme Court, Darlington hired an unusual advocate-North Carolina's Democratic Senator (and ex-State Supreme Court justice) Sam J. Ervin Jr. No law prevents members of the House or Senate from trying cases in any court except the U.S. Court of Claims, though purists looked askance at a U.S. Senator representing a private client against the U.S. Government-to say nothing of the fact that Ervin's constituents include thousands of North Carolina textile workers. Ervin, however, insisted that he was "fighting for the economic freedom of all Americans...
...Darlington itself, Harlan ordered the NLRB to further probe "the purpose and effect" of the closing in relation to the combine's other workers. He left open for future review by the lower court the board's finding that Darlington was an integral part of Deering Milliken. Although this may yet bring the case back to the Supreme Court, the union joyously hailed the Darlington decision as a Waterloo for "large union-busting textile complexes in the South," which "can no longer play musical chairs with workers' lives and the welfare of textile communities...