Word: contrasts
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Maryland's fifth Republican Governor in 180 years, Agnew proved to be an eminently competent and imaginative chief executive. In contrast to some of his predecessors, he was positively revolutionary. Enjoying a year-long honeymoon with the Democrat-dominated state legislature, he pushed through a graduated income tax and obtained passage of one of the nation's toughest state antipollution laws. He also won repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings...
...state survey by TIME correspondents last week found ample justification for the pessimism that pervades the Humphrey camp. Were the election to be held now, Nixon would win handily, capturing 34 states with 328 electoral votes (needed to win: 270). Hubert Humphrey, by contrast, can be conceded only ten states, plus the capital, all of which command 121 votes. Four Deep South states, with 39 votes, belong to George Wallace, while Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 50 between them, are rated tossups. Humphrey is so far behind in the backstretch of this presidential race that he is running third in half...
...major carriers to show an earnings increase this year, squeezes its extra mileage in large part from the ideas of Ad Gal Mary Wells (now the wife of Braniff President Harding Lawrence), who dressed stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms and painted planes in vivid hues. By contrast, TWA's decision to doll up stewardesses on transcontinental domestic flights in "foreign accent" uniforms has proved something of a flop. Having hired the Wells agency away from Braniff, TWA next month will instead start outfitting its girls in what it calls "modernistic nonuniform uniforms." These will consist of casual mufti ensembles...
...bore scant resemblance to the lissome heroine of NBC's comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Yet sure enough, there was George Wallace in living color at Jeannie's usual time, dispensing his own brand of sugar-sweet demagoguery in his first nationwide TV appeal. For all the contrast, the substitution of George for Jeannie was bizarrely apt. For like the star of the show-a genie-Wallace is a specter that both major parties would prefer to see back in the bottle...
...Actual Threats. Tennessee's law had been tested in the courts only once, but in that case the jailing of a witness had been upheld because he had balked at testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied...