Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the party's Southern conservative wing emerged Lester Maddox, who waited until last week to join the field. In his nationally televised announcement, the former fried-chicken entrepreneur paraphrased the George Wallace platform, extolling private enterprise and attacking crime, big government, racial violence and the Supreme Court. The Georgian will likely cost Humphrey no more than a scattering of votes in the South. Since Maddox regards the three other Democratic candidates as socialists or worse, some Southerners speculated that he was running so that, when rejected, he would have an argument for bolting the party and supporting Wallace...
...even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...
...Crime and Punishment. Memphis' Negroes are in a volatile mood over such recent cases as that of Larry James Mitchell Holt, 24, who crumpled the fender of his red Dodge while fleeing (at an estimated 40 m.p.h.) from a pursuing police car. The car's glass was unbroken; yet it took 180 stitches to close gashes in Holt's face and head. Holt contends that the two cops dragged him from his car and beat him. The cops maintain that Holt's injuries came in the crash, but do not explain why no blood was found...
Like the actual event on which it is tenuously based, the picture begins brightly. A company treasurer (Robert Morse) is in the process of absconding to Brazil with the company funds when the power failure overtakes him at the scene of the crime. He quickly gloms an abandoned auto from a traffic jam and heads for Boston, where an airport is still functioning. But he gets only as far as the exurbs...
...crime to love the South, its cause, and its President, then I am a criminal. I am in your power; do with me as you please...