Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening's gloom was somewhat relieved by Molly Maddox (Wheaton) with two numbers--Scarecrow and Subway. While amusing, the choreography was cliched and the whole not so much a ballet as a mediocre pantomime. Also amusing, though unoriginal were Phoebe Barnes and Christina Starobin in Miss Starobin's Phoebe and Christina Pal on Stage or, America Remembers Mary Heavtline. Unfortunately, the number was as over-long as is the title...
...done everything in his power to give all Atlantans a reason to be proud of their city. Georgians have roundly condemned the actions of our exceedingly small Governor. Atlanta remained dignified mostly because of Mayor Allen and the students of Atlanta University and in spite of Governor Maddox...
...television panel show last week that Humphrey had already offered the vice-presidential nomination on his ticket "to every Southern Governor." When pressed as to his source, Sorensen insisted: "I know he has." Which governors in particular? "Right across the board." The idea of Humphrey putting Lester Maddox or Lurleen Wallace as close to the presidency as the proverbial heartbeat is, of course, bafflegab, and Sorensen himself later backed away a bit from his initial assertion...
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...
...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...