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About to meet George Wallace for the first time, British Labor M.P. Bruce George was expecting an ogre. To his surprise, the Alabaman turned out to have "delightful charm." Wallace brushed off barbed questions, the M.P. noted, with an "impish grin and laughing eyes." The M.P.'s reaction was shared by many other Europeans. On his first trip to Europe, Wallace was determined to be ingratiating and play the statesman...
...would appeal to the party's left wing, he has also made overtures to the right by indicating a willingness to come to terms with George Wallace, who may arrive at the convention with one-third of the delegates. Humphrey has suggested that he would not place the Alabaman on the ticket but would let him participate in drawing up the party platform and in selecting a Cabinet if the Democrats win the election. Most comfortable when he is campaigning hardest ("I love it all," he says, as he alternately grabs hands and waves to traffic at a factory...
...recently as last April, now puts him in front by the same margin. A Georgia survey indicates that he is also strong among conservatives. In a state that gave George Wallace more votes than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Ford trounces the Alabaman...
...groups and in the Democratic-controlled legislature. A top California Democratic organizer calls him "a cleaned-up George Wallace." In fact, Brown's anti-Establishment stance is not too far removed from Wallace's attacks on "pointy-headed" bureaucrats, though Brown is more cerebral and lacks the Alabaman's folk venom. The California Governor is not so much concerned with the "little man" as with Everyman. With a slight twist on Spiro Agnew's "rad-libs," Brown's supporters might be called "rad-cons...
...party platform. He attempted a joke about having attended one too many political rallies this year; when it fell flat, he knew he was not among his "folks," but the McGovern delegates treated Wallace courteously, as they had been instructed to do and as their leader had promised the Alabaman they would. Only when Wal lace began damning welfare and busing were the few cheers from Florida and other delegations answered with boos. The convention subsided again, greeting even Wallace's malaprop about "intellectual pseudosnobs" with a bemused silence. Then the convention efficiently voted down every one of Wallace...