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...Peanut Lovers. Half an hour later, Humphrey showed up 28 miles away in Tifton (pop. 10,000), displayed a giant Georgia goober, deadpanned: "I want to tell you that Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey like peanuts enough to make the peanut economy worth more than just peanuts." Then he laced into Goldwater and tried to convince his segregationist Southern audience that Barry is some sort of secret integrationist...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hope plays Gaylord Goober, the people's choice, with Guest Stars Ginger Rogers and Perry Como...
...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey." Died. Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox, 72, longtime (since 1925) Georgia member of the House of Representatives and second in seniority on the House Rules Committee; of a heart ailment; in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Shrewd, rabble-rousing Congressman Cox was convinced that the world is divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous...
...months, almost singlehanded, Georgia's hot-eyed Gene Cox had done his best to keep the U.S. from sending grain to famine-threatened India. The President had asked for it, the Senate had passed the bill, but "Goober" Cox had tied things in committee, where he thrashed around with the bill like a mongoose fighting a cobra. Last week, when the bill finally reached the House floor, Goober rose for a last convulsive spring. His intent: to keep it from even being debated...