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...handles-he called them "Pickrick drumsticks"-to keep Negroes out. Georgia Republicans, figuring that he would be an easier target than Arnall for G.O.P. Candidate Howard ("Bo") Callaway in November, drove up to polling booths by the thousands to vote for Mad dox-many in cars bearing Callaway bumper stickers. By one estimate, they cast 100,000 votes for the balding bigot, enough to give Maddox a startling 430,000-to-360,000 victory. As a result, liberals and Negroes next month are expected to either support a write-in candidate or vote for Callaway, himself a segregationist...
...strike against Schenley was just holding its own until the boycott began to take effect during the winter and early spring. Help was enlisted all over the country to urge supermarkets and liquor stores to stop carrying Schenley products. The NFWA circulated bumper stickers reading "Kool-Aid Sil, Schenley...
...Brown. Brown, of course, was non-commital, but the publicity broke Schenley. In April, Schenley signed a contract, the first ever signed between a major grower and a farm workers union. The contract insured an immediate raise to a minimum of $1.75 per hour with bonuses for rapid work. Bumper stickers were rear-ranged to read simply "Schenley...
...spot, Lyndon has pointedly reaffirmed his attachment to Humphrey. "As long as I am President," he told labor leaders at a private White House dinner, "I want Vice President Humphrey by my side." Thus Bobby has been urging overeager supporters to remove the "Kennedy in '68" billboards and bumper stickers that have sprouted from Baltimore to Berkeley; he flatly denies any such ambitions...
...surface, Britain bustles with the prosperity of bumper-to-bumper traffic and aluminum forests of television antennas; its cultural shock troops of pop art, theater and cinema, the big beat, and Carnaby Street fashions are conquering the world. But underneath, nearly every observant Briton knows that his nation is in serious trouble. One critic has warned that the scepter'd isle seems ready to "sink giggling into the sea." Author Michael Shanks (The Stagnant Society) says that "the hardheaded (and often hardhearted) millowners and steel masters of the North have bred the little flirts of Chelsea and Kensington...