Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Humphrey has a fighting chance to carry a few Southern states in November, he is obviously not constructing his strategy around that hope. Dixie will indeed be fought over. If the election turns out to be as close as now appears likely, a few smallish states could be decisive-north or south of the Mason-Dixon line. But it seems unlikely that the South will go as a bloc for any one candidate. Wallace will almost certainly take a few states, with Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana his surest bets. Humphrey might collect Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states...
...other points?but the combatants cannot agree on how it is to be delivered. Nigeria insists that it come by overland route, where federal forces can make an in spection for arms. Biafra insists on an air route, claiming that the Nigerians will poison the food if they get close...
Sara Mayfield's chatty account of "the Sage of Baltimore" is another link in the seemingly endless sausage of Menckeniana. Miss Mayfield, an Alabamian who was a close friend of Mencken, is most revealing on Mencken the professional bachelor who finally gave in at the age of 49 and endorsed monogamy as "comfortable, laudable, and sanitary...
...fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious of the safety of the airlift's flying procedures but he wants to return there, this time for expenses only...
...center of attention firmly, but much of the first act could be played with less method intensity, more of the light farce Mayer is wont to introduce on occasion. Last night, Iver's tightly-knit band, his stylized compositions and arrangements, and extraordinary singer George Leh, came as close to stealing a show as anybody comes working with Mayer...