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Flashlight & Six-Gun. Two more marshals came and went before Mayor C. P. Hendrix finally found a long, lean hangover from the old West named Floyd Earl. The new marshal took over like the hero of a TV shoot-'em-up. "This has been my home all my life," says Earl. "I felt like I was just volunteering for military service." With neither uniform nor police car to advertise his authority, Earl prowled his territory after dark, wigwagged at speeders with a flashlight, unlimbered his six-gun and shot at them when they failed to stop. Although...
...then half the town was after the marshal's hide. Last week they called a meeting and tried to get Earl fired. "He jumps out at cars and starts waving this flashlight at them," said Mrs. Carl Hollowell. "If you were a stranger going through town, would you stop? Then he pulls a gun on you and starts shooting. The other day he was walking down the main street with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun in his hands. I tell you, everybody's life in town is in danger with that man loose...
...supporters accuse him of selling out, have coined a new reading for L.B.J.: "Let's Beat Judas." Southern conservatism is on the rise and, as Southern Senators made clear in Congress last week, the conservatives are not enthusiastic over their nominee. Complained one to touring Herald Tribune Newsman Earl Mazo: "Every time you pick up the paper there's a picture of Kennedy with Reuther or Soapy Williams or another fellow like that." Almost unnoticed, moreover, the Southern G.O.P. has been rebuilding. Patronage grubbers have been replaced by fresh new workers. Admits South Carolina Democratic National Committeeman Edgar...
Winner by some 6,000 votes in a Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...
...renegade, a turncoat, an opportunist who plays footsie with the liberal Negro bloc." Even in Lyndon Johnson's home state, a poll of newspaper publishers showed that, by a majority of 16 to 14, they expected Nixon to carry Texas. New York Herald Tribune Reporter (and Nixon Biographer) Earl Mazo returned from the South breathlessly convinced that if the election had been held last week. Nixon would have swept the entire Old Confederacy...