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...always, Rusk has maintained his calm. "I'm just chuckling these days and leaving it all to them," he says. This time, he may well get the last chuckle. Governor Lester Maddox, who has been bitingly critical of Rusk, cannot legally alter the makeup of the board of regents with new appointments until after the first of the year. The board's moderates, who constitute a majority, were not planning to wait. They scheduled a special meeting for this week, intending to approve Rusk's appointment...
Imperious Ways. Most A.C.C.C. members still profess a fundamentalism that might best be characterized as responsible extremism. But many who agree with Mclntire theologically have become increasingly edgy about his political pronouncements, especially his support of civil rights opponents like Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. Nor do Mclntire's internal political methods endear him to colleagues. A.C.C.C. General Secretary John Millheim notes that his motto seems to be "Let us reason together and do it my way." As for the I.C.C.C., Mclntire's political attitudes and imperious ways have proved so embarrassing to missions that an estimated...
Georgia's hebetudinous Lester Maddox last week denounced textbooks, films and courses that fail to glorify the U.S. Speaking to the Governor's Conference on Education, the former fried-chicken king said: "Some things have been added that should be burned-and you know it." One item that particularly inflamed him was a textbook that called Patrick Henry an "agitator." Maddox said he had been raised to think of Henry as a hero. The audience of educators and school-board members replied with scattered applause. Cross burning may be a dying art in the South, but if Maddox...
Although they are both Republicans and more or less liberal, two Rockefeller brothers seemed to be in friendly competition to win the favor of Georgia's Democratic reactionary Governor Lester Maddox. Aware that Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller had delivered a shiny orange bicycle to Maddox after Lester had jokingly complained about his lack of transportation, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller could hardly wait to upstage his brother. How did Maddox like the bike from...
Winthrop? he asked. One with a motor would be better, Lester allowed. The answer was not lost on Nelson, who bought a pea-green motorbike and sent it to the statehouse in Atlanta. Put-putting happily around his office, Maddox offered his newest benefactor a free ride any time he comes south...