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...expired, and left. The sentiment of Leslie Langnau, a junior at Michigan State, was widely shared: "I wish I had a prepared sheet of facts. Carter would say one thing and Ford would say another. They can't both be right." At the University of California at Berkeley, Lester Antman, 19, had no difficulty picking a winner. His choice: Panelist Elizabeth Drew. Many students thought they could have done better than either man. Declared University of Virginia Sophomore David Barol: "Ford's attack on Congress was a strong point. I can't understand why Carter didn't point out Ford...
CORNELL at RUTGERS - Cornell has lost nine games in a row; if the Big Red doesn't increase that streak to ten, then Lester Maddox will surely be President. RUTGERS 33, CORNELL...
...scheduled to address several midwestern delegations. The elevator fills up and an elderly man shoots me a quick "Hello young fella." I bait him. "Mr. Maddox, what would you have done if this was 1968 and there were demonstrators downstairs?" "I think Mayor Daley did the right thing," Lester Maddox says, emerging from the elevator to tell the crowd "regardless of where everyone else stands today, I'll still be Lester Maddox tomorrow...
...politics of race has gone with the wind," proclaimed Georgia's Governor George Busbee in his 1975 inaugural address. But Busbee, who succeeded Carter, had reason to know that he was not entirely right: his opponent in the Democratic primary runoff, Lester Maddox, won 40% of the vote, mostly from diehard segregationists, who, though they no longer elect statewide candidates, hang on as an inhibiting political force...
...this philosophy that links him, however uneasily and tenuously, with Black Congressman Andrew Young and Mississippi Publisher Hodding Carter III on one end of the South's political spectrum, and with George Wallace and Lester Maddox on the other end. That was the point Carter was attempting to make when he said in 1970 that Maddox "has compassion for the little man," and when he said that a Humphrey-Wallace ticket in 1972 "would do well in the South," and when he called himself "basically a redneck...