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...past four years a one-man road show named Lester Maddox has been touring Georgia. At rural crossroads and in small towns where his beloved "little people" congregate, Maddox, 59, sings hymns and country ballads, plays his harmonica, and pedals his star-spangled bicycle backward. The object is to give Maddox a second term as Governor, a post he held from 1967 to 1971. Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah." Last week that effort suffered a setback that may be fatal...
...went to the other ten candidates. A majority of the voters, including 70% of the state's 450,000 registered blacks, stayed away from the polls last week. If many absentees show up for the runoff, they too are expected to help Busbee put an end to Ole Lester's political career...
...Lester would also establish arbitration boards composed of senior professors to settle complaints of high-level faculty discrimination rather than allow cases to drag through the bureaucracies and the courts...
...apply equal opportunity in the loftier reaches of academe have been somewhat ill considered. But Dr. Mary M. Lepper of HEW's Office for Civil Rights counters that too often "women and minorities are being hired and let go -it is a revolving door." She adds that Lester's complaints about ruptured faculty traditions and standards are "based in mythology." In fact, surveys have shown that from 1968 to 1972, the number of blacks on college faculties increased only from 2.2% to 2.9%, the number of women from 19.1% to 20%. The figures, which have not changed appreciably...
...Lester C. Thurow, 36, has been a full professor of economics and management at M.I.T. since he was 33. Montana-born, educated at Williams, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar) and Harvard, Thurow was a staffer for the Council of Economic Advisers during the opening shots of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. As a member of George McGovern's 1972 Cambridge brain trust, he proposed a potent inheritance tax as a step toward redistributing the 45% of the wealth held by 2.5% of the U.S. population. That and other such programs stirred a row, says Thurow, because...