Word: alabama
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...would be fair to say that nothing would have ever happened to Graceville if not for the seven summers of the Graceville Oilers. In 1952, a group of men in town came up with the money to field a team in the Class D Alabama-Florida League. They made a deal with a Ford dealer (free advertising for station wagons) to solve the transportation problem, wangled hand-me-down uniforms from the Cincinnati Reds, carved a baseball diamond out of the high school stadium, and spread the word in the town's weekly newspaper. The other league members like Dothan...
Even old Air Force men have been known to break out in a sweat once aloft in the passenger seats. Alabama's George Wallace, an engineer in a B-29 crew during World War II, is no exception. Recently, when a British journalist tried to interview him on his chartered Electra high over Illinois, Wallace turned off all questions while he stared fixedly out the window. "Listen, sonny," he said, "I'm tryin' to get us out of this weather. Now leave me be." California's Ronald Reagan is no braver. Congratulated recently because he seemed...
...ALABAMA...
Wallace is strongly favored in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi...
...some indeterminate date, the book leaves what may for simplicity's sake be called historical fact and concentrates on 1) the tragic illness (leukemia) of the President's little daughter, 2) the marital difficulties of one of the invented characters, and 3) a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. There is no assassination in Dallas; possibly Rennert is saving this for a sequel...