Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the modernistic Civic Center in the Rio Grande city of McAllen (pop. 32,728) last week crowded some 650 Texans to cheer Davy Crockett's words from the movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other, and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." Then nearly 200 of them announced their resignations from the Democratic Party and pledged their allegiance to the G.O.P. in Texas...
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...Having just seen John Wayne's The Alamo, I was amazed to read your hatchet job in your Nov. 7 issue. The review, which found fault with everything except the institution of John Wayne himself, was filled with distortions and evidenced a deliberately hostile reviewer ("the picture was as flat as Texas"). No mention was made that the picture has a patriotic theme showing how diverse and often feuding men banded together with the common purpose of fighting for liberty...
...your review of The Alamo: after a fairly steady diet of doom, declining prestige and farm income, dull candidates, duller debates, and disunited nations, may I offer my heartfelt thanks for the first genuine laugh in months...
...meandering, crowd-rousing talk, told the people how the Democratic party was the party of "all the people," how the Democrats were going to insure that "all Americans will enjoy the blessings of liberty--regardless of race, creed or color," how three Massachusetts boys had died at the Alamo, how no one had asked Captain Joe Kennedy and Wilfred Wylie from Fort Worth what church they attended when they went out to die "so that all of us could be free," and what a pleasure it was "to stand beside, to stand with, to stand behind, that great and dynamic...