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INDIANA. One high point of Wallace's characteristically helter-skelter campaign in Indiana was a $25-a-plate lunch at the Indianapolis Hilton, which drew, among others, Grand Dragon William Chaney of the state Ku Klux Klan and Frank Thompson, head of a local John Birch Society chapter, who listed Wallace's credentials: "He's American, he's Christian, he's experienced." Humphrey did not start campaigning in Indiana until seven days before last week's primary, and at that he had to divide his time between Indiana and neighboring Ohio. Humphrey squeaked through...
...Government recovers) to a full-fledged undercover Government agent like Herbert Philbrick (/ Led Three Lives). As Philbrick's case suggests, the usually unsavory reputation of informers often vanishes if the cause seems especially just -or at least popular. The FBI'S hired hand who fingered the Ku Klux Klan killers of Viola Liuzzo generated considerably less controversy than Boyd Douglas...
...Last May, the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a district court order calling for the busing of 9,000 of the 24,000 students to achieve racial balance in the city's predominantly white (68%) school system. When the schools opened in September, six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested for fire-bombing Pontiac school buses; militant white mothers chained themselves to buses and enrolled their children in impromptu neighborhood "freedom schools...
...Pontiac parents, busing has been a traumatic experience. "There is fear," says School Superintendent Dana Whitmer. "The whites fear the ghetto and the blacks fear sending their children into what they are afraid are Ku Klux Klan areas." The significant issue, though, is how the children have reacted. The answer, so far, seems to be: remarkably well, to judge by the testimony of two typical Pontiac teenagers...
...those of blacks, whites, or Chicanos, members of every race will remain prisoners of their skins. The ugliness of racism will not disappear until people refuse to consider skin color as significant of anything. In this regard, SDS has been as opposed to color-blindness as the Ku Klux Klan...