Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.). Alabama v. Miami at Miami in the Orange Bowl...
George Wallace, the dreaded unknown factor, proved to be primarily a sectional candidate after all. His major impact was confined to the Deep South, where, as expected, he and his running mate, Curtis LeMay, carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. Nowhere in the industrial Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters...
...race, with the Los Angeles Times State Poll giving Nixon a bare one-point lead on Election Eve. Michigan and Pennsylvania seemed to be tipping toward Humphrey. Texas' disputatious Democrats closed ranks, assuring a strong showing for the Vice President. Then, too, there was the complicating factor of Alabama's George Wallace, who all along seemed to pose a serious threat to Nixon in Southern and Border States that might otherwise have been considered safe for the G.O.P...
Short Coattails. Quite a handful of new Senators will be more conservative than the men whom they replaced (see box opposite). Among those conservatives are Alabama's former Lieutenant Governor James Allen, a close pal of George Wallace, and such Republicans as Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Oklahoma's Henry Bellmen and Kentucky's Marlow Cook...
...Graceville, probably the smallest town ever represented in professional baseball, made it. On many sultry nights there were 3,000 people in the park for an Oilers game against hated Dothan, and one season Graceville actually led the Alabama-Florida League in attendance. The town took its Oilers to its bosom, inviting them to church suppers and baking pies for them and washing their clothes and giving them room-and-board (all very much appreciated, since a player earned from $150 to $300 a month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened...