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Georgia Governor Lester Maddox wanted to ride atop the train to prove its cargo safe. The mayor of Macon, Ga., Ronnie Thompson, has vowed to use force, if necessary, to keep it from passing through his city. A Pentagon spokesman insists that the chances of "catastrophe" are virtually zero, yet the Army is quietly stockpiling quantities of a lifesaving antidote along the proposed route. The British Foreign Office (representing the government of the Bahamas) has questioned the wisdom of the plan...
...abound with local variations, many of which are probably unconstitutional but have not yet been tested in the courts. In South Carolina and several other states, anyone who hangs the flag upside down faces a jail term. Pennsylvania permits flag desecration as a form of political expression. In Athens, Ga., white demonstrators can get parade permits in six hours; blacks wait 24 hours. No appellate court has yet tested the constitutionality of the 1968 federal antiriot law, which carries a five-year sentence or $10,000 fine for crossing a state line to incite or join a demonstration that might...
...Allen Ginsberg to appear with Graham in the religious service, a Washington Monument painted in washable psychedelic colors. The left had more serious requests as well. A radical group, headed by Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago Seven defendants, wanted runners heading from Kent State in Ohio, and Augusta, Ga., where students and blacks were slain, to match the flag-bearing runners heading to Washington from Philadelphia, Valley Forge and Williamsburg, Va., as part of the celebration. From the Rev. Douglas Moore, leader of Washington's Black United Front, came an attack on the rally as a "white racist...
...South, until recently, the main concern was the use and abuse of the Confederate flag, and the Fourth of July was a Yankee nuisance that coincided with the fall of Vicksburg. Now, there is a new passion for the national symbol. Ronnie Thompson, the mayor of Macon, Ga., enlists the city fire department each day for a solemn flag-raising ceremony in front of city hall. Georgia's Lester Maddox, in the hospital with a kidney ailment, is embowered in red, white and blue floral arrangements...
...Though he dropped out of school at 15 to play golf, he did not join the U.S. pro circuit until 1968. Last year he earned only $33,036, but now, with his $30,000 Open winnings, a home and a job as pro at the resort of Sea Island, Ga., and up to $1,000,000 for endorsing products, he says he is ready to concentrate on "becoming the greatest golfer in the world." And none of Jones' monsters are going to get in his way. "You have to accept things as they are," Jacklin said after last week...