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WHEN GEORGE WALLACE ran against Albert Brewer for governor of Alabama in 1970, no one expected he'd have to use a meat cleaver to win. But there is no Marquis of Queensbury in Southern politics, Brewer got a little too close for comfort, and pretty soon Alabama voters were being handed pamphlets with doctored photographs of Brewer in between Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. Pretty soon word went around that Albert Brewer's two daughters were pregnant with black babies. Pretty soon Albert Brewer was back practicing law in Montogomery...
...sort of expected to see this guy brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a string of shrunken heads around his waist," Jim Hayden '77, the head of this year's student advisory board, says. The board knew all about Malek, of course--about his responsiveness program and his appearances before the Senate Watergate Committee's closed sessions--and they were conscious of the controversy Malek might arouse. "But we found Malek really isn't like we expected; he's very competent in management and makes a good impression," Hayden says. "We thought things would go all right...
...Eldridge Cleaver? At least he had the guts to say "I was wrong -and America has lots going...
...Congress of Racial Equality wished him "a lengthy stay in jail"; his old Black Panther comrades ignored him altogether. Such was the cold welcome given to onetime Black Militant Eldridge Cleaver, 40, who stepped off a plane from Paris at New York's Kennedy Airport after seven years of self-exile in Cuba, Algeria and France. Facing charges of parole violation and assault with intent to commit murder, stemming from a 1968 Shootout with police in Oakland, Calif., Cleaver was immediately arrested by FBI agents and flown to San Diego. "It's a new situation now. Black people...
...October on the slogan OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM AND INTO THE REVOLUTION. Argues Brandeis Professor Mordeca Jane Pollock, 34, one of the moderate dissidents: "If you have any political sense, you don't talk about revolution in America today. We've grown up. Look at Eldridge Cleaver...