Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, a day after the funeral for Alabama Senator James Allen, Wallace offered to appoint Allen's widow Maryon as interim Senator. She was "humbled" to accept-and added that she might run for the seat herself in a special election in the fall. Wallace replied that she would have some stiff opposition. Letters have poured in from supporters asking him to reconsider his retirement. Unless he changes his mind again, he will be running for Allen's seat himself. The old dog is barking back...
...managing power. But his lack of experience still seriously fetters him. Participants in his rising attack on the Soviet and Cuban adventurism in Africa describe a man in a delicate state of doubt, where both courage and hesitation (with a bow for the line to old Political Novelist Allen Drury) show themselves...
DIED. James Browning Allen, 65, Alabama's junior Senator and a wily parliamentarian who recently helped lead Senate opposition to the Panama Canal treaties; of a heart attack; in Foley, Ala. After rising in state politics to become George Wallace's hand-picked Lieutenant Governor, Allen fought his way past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern...
After being rejected by Woody Allen, Orson Welles and Lily Tomlin--among many others--the senior class committee finally settled on Rodney Dangerfield as this year's Class Day speaker. Dangerfield, known to millions for his heart-warming televised tributes to Miller Lite beer, apparently decided he could get more respect from the seniors and their parents than the usual crew of drunken nightclub patrons. Dangerfield has never attended a Harvard Commencement before...
Throughout the testimony, Melba Allen, immaculately coiffed in spit curls and a Grecian wiglet, sat impassively, toying with a ballpoint pen and whispering occasionally to her four lawyers. Only once did she break down, during a parade of 24 character witnesses, including old friends, her preacher and Governor George Wallace, who attested to her "good" reputation. Nonetheless, the jury needed only 45 minutes to find her guilty as charged. When sentenced next week, she faces up to 20 years in prison and $20,000 in fines...