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...history," said the Toronto Star, "probably no man has entered the prime ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...
LAST WEEK, during Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, the flag was lowered over the Georgia statehouse. As Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution tells the story, Governor Lester Maddox had objected and had kept the state offices open all day. But Georgia's Secretary of State had jurisdiction over the flag, and he ordered it flown at half mast...
...there sat old Lester," McGill relates, "the flag flyin' at half most over his head, and not a thing he could do about...
...rural South, McGill admits, has come along much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...
...stamp out discrimination and racism on its own campus before sending its professors off to condemn it elsewhere. This University must take a long agonizing look at itself, and set its own house in order. Perhaps then it can help us keep the faith. Charles R. Williams '68 Lester A. Knibbs...