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For months, George Wallace had been casting about for a running mate, often in pretty strange waters. He considered "Colonel" Harland Sanders, the fried-chicken king ("It's finger-lickin' good"). He looked over Paul Harvey, a right-wing newscaster, former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and...
Not to be outdone, some of the more reactionary elements in the Senate--notably John Stennis, Margaret Chase Smith, Strom Thurmond, and Carl Curtis--tacked an amendment onto the National Aeronautics and Space Administration authorization bill in June denying NASA grants to colleges that bar military recruiters from their campus...
The 85-year-old Ladies' Home Journal long considered itself "the magazine women believe in." It carefully mixed the traditional recipe-and-fashion fare with a more sophisticated content (John Gunther on politics, Margaret Mead on sex). Nonetheless, in its perennial duel with McC all's (circ. 8...
Last week Missourians thronged to the polls to nominate Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Eagleton, 38, an attractive, Kennedyesque Democrat who campaigned against the Viet Nam war. Long carried the inner cities, but Eagleton captured the populous suburbs, getting 211,269 votes to 192,163 for Long and 169,312 for...
> A predominantly black St. Louis Congressional district will have an all-Negro general election in November. William L. Clay, a Democrat, will face Curtis C. Crawford, a onetime assistant city prosecutor who switched parties to run as a Republican.