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Perhaps so. But wasting public money is something of a tradition with Alabama governors. During his first term in 1947-51, James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom paid $140,000 in state funds for a seagoing 95-ft. yacht, which he named Jamelle after his wife. Folsom's successor Gordon Persons apparently felt that his wife Alice was entitled to have a yacht named after her, too; anyway, he bought an 80-ft. craft for $100,000, named it Alice. Alabama, one of the poorest states in per capita income, thus earned the distinction of being perhaps the only...
Even Ben Bella may not yet be sure to whose tune he will eventually dance. But as of last week, his words were not those of a Communist-or necessarily even a kissin' cousin of Communism-but of a nationalist faced with possibly insuperable problems at home and little time for intrigue abroad...
...time the U.S. Senate got through with it, the 1962 tax revision bill was not even a kissin' cousin to what the Kennedy Administration originally asked for. The Senate Finance Committee made precisely 174 changes in it, and most of them were upheld on the Senate floor. Viewing the ragged remnants, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon swallowed bravely, insisted that the bill was still "a significant first step toward the reform of our present out moded tax laws." But maybe Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire put it better. Said he bitterly: "It certainly is not a Kennedy bill...
Cried he: "Big Jim is going to furnish the leadership. We're going forward. If you want to go, I'll take you.'' James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
Time to Talk. Many merchants favored negotiations and a possible loosening of the city's strict segregation ordinances. Said the segregationist Birmingham News: "It is time for Birmingham citizens to sit down and talk together." But Connor, running for Governor against popular "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...