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Denouncing the "overeducated, ivory-tower folks with pointed heads looking down their noses at us" -a Wallaceism denoting anybody who is in favor of civil rights, plus all three branches of the U.S. Government - the Alabamian is taking his Know-Nothing brand of politics to every part of the country...
...Mission Bay, "are people who are just upset at things in general and want a change. We think we can work on that part." Law and order, Wallace's theme, will be Nixon's No. 1 topic, and every effort will be made to undercut the Alabamian on his own ground...
...Enemy. If the South's influence this year has been strong, it has also been negative and retrogressive. The Wallace candidacy is a magnet for the disgruntled, and while the Alabamian poses serious problems for the major parties, his odd allure is a force to be circumvented rather than absorbed into the mainstream...
Sara Mayfield's chatty account of "the Sage of Baltimore" is another link in the seemingly endless sausage of Menckeniana. Miss Mayfield, an Alabamian who was a close friend of Mencken, is most revealing on Mencken the professional bachelor who finally gave in at the age of 49 and endorsed monogamy as "comfortable, laudable, and sanitary...
WHATEVER else may be said about George Wallace and his third-party presidential candidacy, the Alabamian has delivered on one cam paign promise before getting his first vote. "We're going to shake the eyeteeth of the liberals of both national parties," he pledged in Des Moines last week. By liberal, he means anything left of the far, far right, and he has already unsettled some political ivory in that broad area...