Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where's Herb? Who knows, but Burger King's white-socked, balding nerd cannot be found taking any bows in the Alabama senate. Last week that august body passed a resolution denouncing Burger King for "consumer fraud" in its Where's Herb? contest...
Instead of quietly dropping the matter, Jason's parents decided to complain to their state senator Mac Parsons. After investigating the dispute, the Alabama senate concluded that Burger King had never made the rules of the game clear in its advertising campaign. The lawmakers threatened to "invoke remedial legislation" if the company failed "to rectify the consumer fraud it has perpetrated." Said Senator Parsons: "I feel what Burger King did was as bad as what the Grinch did when he stole Christmas...
...past two decades, Southern political leaders as divergent as Jimmy Carter and George Wallace have been talking about the need for their region to exercise greater clout in picking candidates for the White House. First, in 1972, Florida held an early-March primary. When Alabama and Georgia climbed / aboard in 1980, the result was what came to be known in the last presidential election as Super Tuesday. Over the past year, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee decided to stage primaries on the second Tuesday in March. Mississippi is expected to follow suit in the next week...
...speech were the five shots that Arthur Bremer fired into his body in a Maryland parking lot in 1972. He did not mention the four black Sunday-school children bombed in a Birmingham church in 1963, or the way he stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to keep blacks from going to class with whites. The omission was natural enough. That was long ago, and in some ways, it was in another country...
...opportunist in Wallace that eventually made his peace with Alabama blacks, and even won their crucial support in his last campaign? Or was it a matter of amazing grace? If slavery and all that followed were the American original sin, George Wallace ended his journey in the vicinity of redemption. It was a strange and moving American spectacle to see Wallace a few weeks ago receive an honorary degree from Tuskegee Institute, the blacks in the audience applauding him with a forgiving warmth. Wounded, in his wheelchair, subdued and sweet, he blew them kisses...