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Something about the poses and expressions suggested Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. But the photo actually showed a live actor, Stacy Keach, sitting in a real electric chair, and his producerdirector, Jack Smight, making a film called The Traveling Executioner on location at Kilby Prison near Montgomery, Ala. The third figure was merely a familiar passerby: George Wallace...
GREENE COUNTY, ALA...
...Greene County, Ala., where 11,050 blacks overwhelmingly outnumber the 2,546 whites, they have turned that advantage into political clout. Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, there were only 542 registered blacks; now there are 3,988 on the voting rolls, twice as many as whites. Blacks took four out of five seats on the court of county commissioners and won control of the county school board in elections last summer. Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, mounted the high dive at the once segregated swimming pool in Eutaw...
...good heart. After all, "those fellows have a job to do too," said the doctor. He may have second thoughts. From Rome their honeymoon odyssey took them to the U.S., where they caught Liza Minnelli's act in New York, viewed the space center at Huntsville, Ala., and attended the Heart Ball in Palm Beach. Result: more batteries of cameras. Upcoming on their trip: Norway, Lebanon and Switzerland...
...that often confuse the viewer. Fairly typically, a recent one-hour segment of Rebel Without a Cause, shown in the late afternoon, was interrupted by six commercial breaks totaling 16 minutes. Kenneth Cox, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, complained last week that one station, WAGF in Dothan, Ala., shows 41 minutes of commercials in an hour. Since the number of commercials is limited only by a voluntary but unenforceable code of the National Association of Broadcasters,* the FCC feels powerless to cut the clutter...