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Alabama Democrat George Wallace is still smarting from the defeat of his independent slate of presidential electors and the mass defections of Alabama Democrats to Goldwater. To rebuild prestige, Wallace is calling for a massive, liberal spending program that would include free textbooks for all public schools, increased teachers' salaries, and a $100 million bond issue for school construction. All that will please most Alabamians, but it will leave Wallace's successor in 1967 with an estimated state deficit of $500 million, compared with $258 million when Wallace himself took office...
...signal the start of a new regime, every presidential appointee in the Administration sent the President the traditional letter of resignation, and he is, of course, free to pick up any or all of them. But if Lyndon Johnson means to rebuild his team, he is certainly going about it slowly and cautiously. The word last week was that the President is seeking no major Cabinet changes, at least for the present, although Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, HEW's Boss Anthony Celebrezze, and CIA Director John McCone all may resign soon. Nor is Johnson rushing to fill the vacancy...
...University of Pennsylvania has signed Bob Odell, former Quaker All-American, as its new head football coach. Odell, who made an Eastern small-college power out of the Bucknell football team, will attempt to rebuild Penn's lagging football fortunes...
...Dutch treat will be used to rebuild Indonesia's Dutch-equipped railway system and sugar and tin industries-crippled when the flow of replacement parts from The Netherlands was halted-and to expand and improve inadequate port and airport facilities...
...time when man gains full dominion under God over his own destiny. It's the time of peace on earth and good will among men." In Los Angeles, where tinsel dreams are mass-produced, Lyndon sounded every bit as Utopian. "We are going to have to rebuild our cities," he said. "We are going to have to reshape our mass transit facilities. We have to purify our air and to desalt our oceans. We are going to make all the deserts bloom." Think Positively. Just how would all this be done? Never mind the details, said Lyndon in effect...