Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over two hours the film--which was shot in Selma, Alabama--winds its desultory course. When the camera leaves Arkin, it doesn't seem to know who to follow next. The scenes are logical, but ill-timed. You get the feeling the camera arrives on the set at just the wrong moment. All sense of time is lost. It is the acting of Arkin and Locke which finally manages, against all odds, to establish some sort of mood...
...dare he? Impropriety indeed! The effrontery of that little banty rooster of a demagogue from Alabama, placing a wreath on Lincoln's Tomb [Sept. 20]. "Reverently"? With that habitual sneer? That is making a mockery of everything the great Lincoln stood for. Wallace shouldn't be allowed to even stand on such hallowed ground...
...defensive. Humphrey supports the Supreme Court. He lauds the Kerner commission report, which Nixon accuses of blaming everyone except the rioters and which Wallace terms "asinine and ludicrous." To underscore the truism that neither party has a monopoly on crime, Humphrey points out that Wallace's Alabama leads the nation in the number of murders, and that states with Republican Governors also have high crime rates ("if that means anything"). Humphrey likes to point out that he is running for President, not sheriff...
...court didn't buy Alabama's argument, but it still wouldn't end Freedom of Choice. In a compromise decision, it gave the state one year to make Freedom of Choice work, and invited the Justice Department to file a new suit next summer...
...State of Alabama's case was identical to the one it had made earlier when Freedom of Choice was introduced. If zoning and bussing start, Wallace protegee Gov. Albert Brewer said, whites will flee the shools, and the legislature will end the public school system...