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...Wallace. His winning populist profile pre-empted Jackson's ability to score as an antibusing candidate. Of those Floridians who voted no on the statewide busing referendum, 54% found it "respectable" to vote for Wallace, while only 14% voted for Jackson. Nonetheless, the racist image continues to haunt Wallace. Among those who did not vote for him, 53% still think of him as racist, 34% say he is too extreme, and 26% label him a one-issue candidate...
...used to see the OAPs in the afternoons. The usual price there is about 60 cents: for OAPs it's only 12. I suppose the Biograph was once luxurious, but now it has gone to seed, Besides amusing the OAPs it is, my roommate told me, a favorite haunt of homosexuals. He refused ever to go there even thought was only a block from where we lived in the center of London, and it showed films you couldn't see anywhere else. Mostly they were just bad--dubbed Italian epics about the rape of the Sabine women, horror creepies...
...this year there is a good chance of a tie for the national title. If Navy beats Penn and Penn beats us, the title is decided by the margin of victory through the entire season record," Barnaby said. "A 6-3 or 5-4 victory could come back to haunt...
...acted, Dulles erupted in '"hostility amounting almost to frenzy. There may have been other reasons. Perhaps the grim disease which was later to prove mortal had affected his psychological and intellectual equilibrium. Perhaps the spectre of Soviet Russia, now armed with the terrible nuclear weapon, had begun to haunt his dreams. He clearly lost his temper; he may also have lost his nerve. In any event, we and our French allies were now to face an attack, skillfully devised and powerfully executed, in which the protagonists were the Russian and American Governments, acting together in unnatural coalition...
...seeds of Independent Pinkney's defeat were sown at the same time Stokes was rejoicing at Carney's victory. Immediately after the primary, Stokes elatedly proclaimed that the way was now cleared for a race between "two gentlemen." And in words that would come back to haunt him, he added, "I am discounting the man who raised our real estate taxes, Mr. Perk." For despite every effort to switch black votes back to Pinkney, including two letters and another recorded message from the Mayor, the inroads that Carney had made in the black community could not be counteracted. Stokes badly...