Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rid of the Kooks. Streaking, in a sense, is just what the Alabama Governor is doing. Despite mild disclaimers, he is running hard for a place on the Democratic national ticket in 1976. For the first time he is given a fair chance-if not for the No. 1 spot, then as the vice-presidential candidate. Though he cannot walk unaided and tires fast, Wallace has staged a remarkable comeback. He trails only Senator Edward Kennedy in Democratic Party presidential polls for 1976. Watergate, meanwhile, has alienated many conservatives from the Republican Party, and they may well turn to Wallace...
Inevitably, perhaps, Wallace has been moving toward the middle of the road, seemingly giving up his militant segregationism and many of his longtime redneck associates. "We are glad to be rid of the kooks," says a close Wallace aide. "We were never comfortable with that crowd. We may have been segregationists at one time, but we weren't crazy. They didn't fit well at all with the Governor's new image." The ordeal of his paralysis seems to have mellowed Wallace, now 54. He does not even bear a grudge against his would-be assassin...
...ACLU wants to effect its will today, it has to go through the political process," he said. "From 1954 to 1968 we were singularly blessed with a Supreme Court as an institution of social change. Now the courts want to get rid of cases that involve individual rights of citizens...
...faculty got rid of its "core curriculum," the one-and-a-half year program in the basic sciences that allowed clinical staff to teach alongside of basic sciences instructors. The plan that replaces it will, beginning in September, return teaching to the basic science departments, and will probably mean much more rigorous pre-clinical training...
...thinks the question is, what price is the country willing to pay to get rid of the problem...