Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider George Corley Wallace himself, the dour little Alabama demagogue who has influenced the entire 1968 campaign, defied the two-party system and raised the specter that no one will be elected President on Nov. 5. Though the odds against him are very long indeed, he could conceivably become the 37th President of the U.S. "We could be elected," he says. "It is not an impossible dream...
...praise on them. "I don't see how the police restrain themselves as much as they do," he said in Cleveland last week. "If they could run this country for about two years," he has said at other times, "they'd straighten it out." They might even straighten out Alabama, which last year had the highest murder rate in the nation...
...must take exception to an otherwise well written article by James Fallows which dealt with integration in the south. His statement that black schools in Mississippi and Alabama "without exception, are ramshackle, decaying, understaffed and overcrowded" is a simple misstatement of fact...
...similar set-to, if not a duel, could possibly recur this year if Wallace won, say, the 47 electoral votes of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. In that case, either Richard Nixon or Humphrey would need 55% of the remaining electoral votes to take the election. A popular-vote cliffhanger such as 1960 might well send the election to Capitol Hill-resulting in all sorts of weird possibilities and permutations...
...Henry Gibson, 32, from Philadelphia, broke into TV in the early 1960s by masquerading on talk shows as a shy, effete poet from Alabama. His portrayal was so convincing that a Birmingham newspaper ran glowing stories about him. On Laugh-In, the short, wispy-voiced comic still recites his nonsense poems, but more often is seen as the stuffy parson: "I'm all for change, but a loose-leaf Bible is going...