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...with the same old faces, all a year older, Maybe Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale won't be hurt by their extra weeks of vacation, and the young pitchers can hold things together until the duo is ready to go. Phil Regan and 20-year old Don Sutton should add depth to last year's rather thin mound corps...
Munching hamburgers in an Atlanta Airport restaurant last December, Emory University Senior Remar ("Bubba") Sutton and the school's sophomore class president, Don Brunson, decided in a rush of anger that they were fed up with student protest against U.S. warfare in Viet Nam. They went back to Sutton's dorm, talked all through the night with four other students, by morning had drafted a set of purposes for a new organization-Affirmation: Viet Nam. They dedicated it to demonstrating that "the opinion of the majority cannot be obscured by the voice of the minority...
This success cost its student backers missed classes, slipping grades, weeks of 20-hour-a-day effort centered in a 20-room section of Emory's Wesley Hall dormitory. The brashness of Bubba Sutton, 24-year-old son of a Marietta, Ga., building contractor and former student on the world-circling University of the Seven Seas, provided the main push. He flew to New York to gain the backing of General Lucius Clay, to Los Angeles to get Bob Hope to make part of a television special explaining A.V.N. to Georgia viewers, to Miami to get Singer Anita Bryant...
...been invited by the South Viet Nam government to visit Viet Nam over the Easter vacation, and they expect to explain their views on the war on a world tour this summer. "You just can't have the people on the negative side making all the noise," insists Sutton. How about all the time already lost from classes? Argues A.V.N. Organizer Wayne Wood: "We are lucky enough to be in college, and this is the least we can do. I can give up my grades and time-it's all I've got to give...
...cozy Elizabethan mansion called Sutton Place, in Surrey outside London, offered 72 rooms, eight manhunting Alsatian watchdogs, four judo experts and two poltergeists dating back to 1777. So on the whole, it should have been ideal for Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Except for that beastly English winter climate. Even installing central heating and a warm-water swimming pool didn't take the chill off. At last Getty has left Sutton Place and moved into a furnished 14th century castle on the seacoast near Rome...