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WHATEVER else may be said about George Wallace and his third-party presidential candidacy, the Alabamian has delivered on one cam paign promise before getting his first vote. "We're going to shake the eyeteeth of the liberals of both national parties," he pledged in Des Moines last week. By liberal, he means anything left of the far, far right, and he has already unsettled some political ivory in that broad area...
...help them cope, Mrs. Brown carefully scrutinizes the copy of Cosmopolitan, has even assembled a "manifesto" on good writing. It warns against the clichés of women's magazines such as "out of this world," "She weighed 102 Ibs. soaking wet," and "Most girls would give their eyeteeth...
When he hits Darwin and mutations, Miner yanks at his front teeth. "The saber-toothed tiger," he says, "was noted for its eyeteeth. They grew and grew, giving the tiger a tremendous bite. They could just WHANG on that prey." He claps his hands together. "But this mutation kept recurring and the eyeteeth grew longer and longer, till they came down like this"?he drapes his forefingers down over his lower jaw?"and then what happened? They couldn't get a bite. So now there are no more saber-toothed tigers...
...volunteer firemen's arena, he harangued a smaller-than-expected crowd of 1,200. "If you're tired of the trend in this nation today," he said, "you have an opportunity to do something about it on May 19. We shocked the liberals to their eyeteeth in Wisconsin and Indiana, and we've got a chance to make their eyeteeth drop out here." The crowd cheered...
...calls the "civil wrongs" bill. In conservative Indiana, he hoped to surpass the 34% of the Democratic vote he received in last month's Wisconsin primary. His 29.8% fell short of the mark, but Wallace took it as a triumph anyway. "This vote," he cried, "is shaking the eyeteeth of the liberals in both parties...