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Three years ago, 43 Southern Congressmen helped pass the Voting Rights Act. In presidential politics, the once Solid South no longer has the weight to offset the Democratic Party's liberal elements. When Texan Lyndon Johnson became President, the conservative South found overnight that it still had no ally in the White House on racial and economic issues. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, the latest presidential entry, complained last week that the "socialists and Communists" now control his ancestral party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Coy, with Clout | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...free election could probably attract more votes than the population they currently control-perhaps getting as much as 35% of the vote in an early election. That might very well prove to be a plurality and, as the Saigon constitution is now written, would give them the country overnight-an outcome that would be hard for the U.S. to accept. If South Viet Nam ever does go Communist, the U.S. hopes that it would be only after a long political struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW THE WAR IN VIET NAM MIGHT END | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...order his front office to work out plans for repaying 50,000 season-ticket holders. In either case, there is genuine concern for the damage a protracted strike may do to the image of the sport. "This league, the players must remember, didn't become a success overnight," says Washington's Williams. "And now it is in danger of being set back years overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: On Strike | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...Anti-Noise League, for exceptionally smooth writing without scratching or squeaking." You hear a trumpet. Tah-Tah! We dissolve to another document. "To Flair from the United Cap Forgetters Council: for having a new kind of ink that won't dry out if you leave the cap off overnight." And a couple of trumpets. Bum-Bum! And on to a third document. "To Flair from the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...story building, and has a cargo compartment that is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight off the side of North Carolina's Kill Devil Hill sand dune. And it flies. At Georgia's Dobbins Air Force Base one morning last week, following an overnight postponement because of last-minute technical problems, the first C-5 lifted gently off the runway for a 94-minute test. Aside from some minor difficulty with the landing gear, the world's largest aircraft, exulted Lockheed Test Pilot Leo J. Sullivan, performed in a way that was "phenomenally beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aircraft: The Biggest Bird | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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