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From the party's Southern conservative wing emerged Lester Maddox, who waited until last week to join the field. In his nationally televised announcement, the former fried-chicken entrepreneur paraphrased the George Wallace platform, extolling private enterprise and attacking crime, big government, racial violence and the Supreme Court. The Georgian will likely cost Humphrey no more than a scattering of votes in the South. Since Maddox regards the three other Democratic candidates as socialists or worse, some Southerners speculated that he was running so that, when rejected, he would have an argument for bolting the party and supporting Wallace...
Died. Alfred Lester Cornwell, 84, former president (1946-54) and chairman (1951-56) of the F.W. Woolworth Co., who supervised the greatest growth in the firm's history; in Brookfield, Conn. "I have seen the company go from the age of the Stanley Steamer to the jet," said Cornwell on his retirement, and so he had, starting out as a stock boy in 1905 and climbing all the rungs to the top. He started the move into suburbia and expanded into South America, thereby boosting annual sales from $477 million to $700 million by the time he was ready...
PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's portrait of a decidedly modern romance...
...problem which demands the utmost concern and attention of all Americans." For all their concern and attention, however, the Governors refused to endorse gun-control legislation, which is favored by police chiefs around the country. "Gun control isn't going to solve the problem," said Georgia's Lester Maddox. "Punishment and apprehension is the answer...
Such forces are at work even in the rather unusual case of Georgia's Democratic delegation, which is handpicked by Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox. Maddox cannot ignore the realities of political balance, and Georgia delegates aim to keep open minds. Or so insists Lawyer Irving Kaler, a Jewish liberal delegate who rebuilt the party's Atlanta machinery. "The convention atmosphere itself encourages you to consider very carefully," says Kaler, "You don't operate in a vacuum. Every instrument of public opinion is focused on you. If you wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before...