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...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...
Horse-show habits are so humdrum these days-all jodhpurs and jackets and little black caps. But the equestrian quadrille calls for costumes as well as class, and Britain's Princess Anne, 17, was making the most of it prettily dressed in a grey brocade Georgian coat, lace jabot, tricorn hat and wig. To the strains of Strauss, she and three chums put their mounts through the paces, and when the day's events were over, young Anne had won the Senior Individual and Training Cup, a nice surprise to take home to her horse-loving parents...
...particular, Mr. McGill's excellent stand on racial justice must be contrasted with his deplorable views on Vietnam. An insistent supporter of the administration's tragic policy in southeast Asia, McGill (as well as the Constitution's editorials) would make his fellow-Georgian, Dean Rusk, proud. He has often substituted ridicule for reason, and he regularly employs the notion of "reason" in a most curious fashion...
...major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words, "simulate the conditions of British seaside golf firm greens, even a little breeze"-and two years later, Augusta National was ready for play...
...guards dominate the Brown scoring attack. Rhode Island native Billy Reynolds, a deadly outside shooter, has a 14.7 average. Rick Landan, 5-8, and Georgian Steve Sigur are the only other men in double figures...