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...could indeed-if not exactly in the way that the ex-boxer from Barbour County anticipates. As a self-declared Populist, Wallace has a slick, simplistic charisma. He appeals to Southerners-and some Northerners as well-who are anti-L.B.J., anti-Big Government, anti-high taxes, anti-intellectual and anti-civil rights. Yet, for all his hopes of hurting the incumbent Democratic Administration, Wallace's campaign next year will in all probability boost Lyndon Johnson's prospects of reelection...
Ruth graduated first and helped the family finances by teaching speech at nearby Tuscaloosa County High School. One of her ace pupils was Lurleen Burns, now Governor Lurleen Wallace. One of Frank's law classmates was George Wallace, a sometime bantamweight boxer and big man on campus. Even then, recalls Johnson, Wallace had "an uncanny ability to sense moves and determine an effective appeal...
...more champion. Cassius Clay, who had won 29 bouts in his professional career after taking the gold medal in Rome in 1960, was suddenly not a boxer anymore...
...tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands who had killed Benny Paret in the ring, won the welterweight championship three times before taking the middleweight title from Nigeria's Dick Tiger last year. On the strength of that, he was called by experts "the best boxer, pound for pound, in the world...
...Becker an ordinary principal. Located in Albany's slum-ridden east side, it is an academy for hard cases-40% are Negro, many of the students come from broken homes, still others are dropouts from other schools. But Ben Becker is a hard case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal to a quiet meeting behind closed doors. The problem...