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...with the Democrat-dominated state legislature, he pushed through a graduated income tax and obtained passage of one of the nation's toughest state antipollution laws. He also won repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings of more than five units, but Agnew later said he might even favor "total open housing...
Died. William Talman, 53, stern-faced district attorney of the Perry Mason TV series, who lost all 252 of his cases during the show's nine-year run; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...carry a few Southern states in November, he is obviously not constructing his strategy around that hope. Dixie will indeed be fought over. If the election turns out to be as close as now appears likely, a few smallish states could be decisive-north or south of the Mason-Dixon line. But it seems unlikely that the South will go as a bloc for any one candidate. Wallace will almost certainly take a few states, with Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana his surest bets. Humphrey might collect Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states in which Wallace and Nixon are likely...
...granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...
Married. Erie Stanley Gardner, 79, master of the mysteries (more than 150 million Perry Mason and other books printed to date); and Agnes Jean Bethell, sixtyish, his secretary for 40 years; both for the second time; in Washoe Valley...