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...Nixon-Agnew teams of Fuller & Smith & Ross (annual billings: $60 million) and Feeley & Wheeler ($6,000,000) have been prepping for the G.O.P. campaign since February. Even Third Party Candidate George Wallace has a long leg up. Birmingham's Luckie and Forney, which handled Lurleen Wallace's 1964 statehouse campaign, has worked up two 30-minute TV shows...
...woman named Gladys Roberts, who was herself from Alabama, was in charge of the Wallace Girls. She looked something like the late Mrs. Lurleen Wallace; that is to say, she was trim, pretty, and hid a faint smile. Gladys Roberts was wearing a styrofoam boater with Wallace stickers pasted on it, a red, white, and blue-striped blazer, a white blouse, a navy blue skirt, stockings, and loafers. She also carried a cardboard painter's bucket...
...More Freeloading. His wife's death cost Wallace much more than Lurleen's loyalty. While she was Governor, Wallace had been unquestioned master of Alabama, free to conscript dozens of administration cronies to work full time in his campaign; 16 state troopers shielded him from hecklers when he went speechifying. Now, with campaign cash dwindling and April's Gallup poll showing his nationwide popularity down four points to a meager 10%, those days are numbered. Alabama's ambitious new Governor Albert Brewer, 39, is expected to fire state jobholders who stay away from work to stump...
Brewer swiftly shucked the lieutenant governor's obscurity when he succeeded Lurleen. Within hours of taking office, he was seeking to revitalize a state administration left sagging by Wallace's neglect and alleviate a major economic crisis. Although Brewer earlier supported Wallace, he is no sycophant. A conservative segregationist, Brewer shuns public talk of racism and has no stomach for Wallace's stem-winding battles with Washington. As his own man, Brewer enjoys statewide renown, could prove a formidable opponent to Wallace if, as expected, they square off in 1970 for the governorship...
...Died. Lurleen Wallace, 41, Governor of Alabama (see THE NATION...