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...limit. There beside him stood Atlanta's grey-thatched Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Democratic to the core but proclaiming the need for a Southern two-party system because "we want to be part of the main stream of American life." Following the mayor came Georgia Democrat James V. Carmichael, who once got more popular votes than Gene Talmadge in a race for Governor (but was defeated by the county unit system). "It's not in the script," said Carmichael, "but I'm going to be honored to work for Dick Nixon and vote for him in November...
...house on the Riviera." But he does have a ten-room chateau-type second home at Huntington, L.I., where he plays tennis on a $25,000 enclosed court. Fairchild is a friend of and frequent host to jazz musicians, recently threw a party for Old Friend Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael. At such parties, Fairchild likes to get into his control booth and record performances, mix drinks at his bar (he drinks little himself), or rustle up a quick meal for his guests. His current favorite: a recipe he picked up in Italy for dumplings made with ricotta (Italian cottage cheese...
...real stamps on proxy letters because he felt that people ignored prestamped envelopes) that he won the battle five to one. He promoted Vice President Boutelle to president. In 1958, after Fairchild Engine lost its huge missile contract and went into a tailspin, Fairchild replaced him with J. M. Carmichael, former chairman of Capital Airlines. Boutelle, bearing no grudge, still speaks of Fairchild as "an extremely gracious, nice person," asked him to be best man at his second wedding...
...hero (Ian Carmichael) is the sort of friendly Freddie that P. G. Wodehouse likes to write about. A graduate of Oxford and the army, he takes a job at the missile works run by his uncle (Dennis Price), who suggests he start at the bottom. So the hero goes blithely to work in the dispatch bay, while Director John Boulting goes slyly to work on the spivs he sees at both ends of Britain's social scale-on the unions that leave a worker free to join or starve and don't care if production goes...
Died. Omer Carmichael, 66, Alabama cotton farmer's son and onetime backwoods teacher, who as superintendent (since 1945) of the Louisville, Ky. school system told his staff after the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...