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...lameduck state judge he made a public show of defying a Johnson order to turn over voting lists to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Johnson later found that Wallace had cooperated with the authorities, and dropped contempt charges against him. But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962. As the years passed, Johnson's intervention in .he workings of state government so emasculated Wallace's authority that some observers began calling Johnson "the real Governor of Alabama...
...Crimson moved in front in the bottom of the third. Rich Pearce reached first and a force at second replaced him with catcher Steve Joyce. Centerfielder Dave Singleton knocked a solid triple into left, scoring Joyce to propel the Crimson ahead...
...could prove to be] a worthy successor to Roosevelt, Truman and [George] Marshall." Of course anyone embodying the power of the U.S. is going to be treated with respect abroad. But Carter, deploying the same combination of disarming charm and unexpected intelligence that he used so skillfully to propel himself into the Oval Office, earned much of this deference...
This afternoon it's off to Northeastern for another Greater Boston League tilt. Freshman Ron Stewart will try to equal his 11-strikeout performance of last week as he starts for the Crimson. A win would almost certainly propel Harvard into first place in the G.B.L...
Under Channick's direction, The Lion in Winter neatly negotiates the emotional currents which propel the tortured Plantagenet family. A few times, only a few, Channick and cast falter: Eleanor's exclamation that Geoffrey has loved her all along comes out of nowhere, and Richard's homosexuality is discovered too suddenly, without sufficient preparation. By and large, however, the production zigzags its way excitingly forward, interrupted only by a series of excessively noisy and prolonged set changes between scenes...