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...executive jet's engines whined into life on the Orlando tarmac, the pilot's voice crackled over the intercom: "They just cleared us for taxiing calling us Air Force One." George Corley Wallace, 52, was headed back home to Alabama on the morrow of the greatest victory of his turbulent political life -winning a stunning 42% plurality in the eleven-candidate Florida Democratic primary. Lighting up a cigar, clearing his throat of the ever-present phlegm and spitting it into a handkerchief, Wallace was exuberant as he talked with his wife Cornelia and TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. "They...
...conducted at a dismally low level of discourse. That is the level on which the simplistic Wallace functions best. The lesson offered by Wallace is clear enough: When voters are distressed, either the more orthodox candidates must find convincing ways to attack the causes, or George Corley Wallace will continue to win votes and clobber politicians who "can't park their bicycles straight...
...Tight. During the pretrial hearing, Joseph Remcho, 27, a member of the Lawyers' Military Defense Committee that has been defending G.I.s, asked that the jury be selected at rani dom. Remcho had lost on the same moi tion in a dozen previous cases. This time, however, Colonel Arthur Corley, commander of Long Binh, consented. Explained the career officer: "The mil-j itary justice system is under attack, par- i ticularly by those who consider themselves more liberal than the establishment . . . We decided to give it a try to show that we are not so tight...
...verdict of not guilty was quick in coming. Remcho insisted that "the jury brought into the courtroom the kind of things that enlisted men know about." Corley, while not arguing with the outcome, regretted that no officer was on the panel to lend "greater balance and maturity." Major John McHardy, the military trial judge, had the most decisive comment: "The verdict was supported by the evidence...
When the results were in at his election-night headquarters, Wallace was his cocky old self as raucous rebel yells greeted his joyful summation: "Alabama still keeps her place in the sun, and Alabama will continue to be heard from." Translated, he meant that George Corley Wallace still enjoys political fair weather and expects to be anew the irrepressible voice of Alabama...