Word: alabamian
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George Corley Wallace's politics are about as new as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!" yet even the Alabamian is helped by the electorate's prevailing en nui with familiar faces and conventional styles. He took his third-party candidacy on a six-day, 24-town swing through Massachusetts last week, drawing curious, generally friendly crowds of up to 3,000, despite ubiquitous hecklers. The latest Gallup poll showed that Wallace has steadily gained popularity not only in the Solid South but elsewhere in the country as well...
Tipping Scales. He is already on the ballot in 32 states. Petition drives are in progress in ten more. Louisiana Governor John McKeithen, a staunch Humphreyite, admits that Wallace is the present odds-on favorite in that state. The Alabamian should carry Mississippi as well as his home state, and elsewhere in the South he may draw off enough votes to wreck Nixon's chance of carrying Dixie. In any state, north or south, where the balance is close, George Wallace can tip the scales to the party that loses fewer supporters to his cause...
...briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
With all the venom of a Southern mob barring a school door to a Negro child, a handful of Northern demon strators sought last week to deny the Dartmouth College auditorium floor to George Wallace. "Wallace is a racist, Wallace is a racist!" chanted Negro undergraduates as the Alabamian tried to address the student body. Then, led by a white instructor from Colby Junior College in New London, N.H., who yelled "Get out of here! Get out of here!", the students charged the stage...
...quickest at grasping points of complicated cases of any judge I've ever seen." Says another Alabamian: "He gives 'em all hell...