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When Flanders & Swann dropped their first hat in the States, I was still lolling under the appleboughs. (Was Eisenhower president then?) There seemed to me no one more laughworthy in those days -- except maybe Jules Feiffer. Next to Bernard Mergendieler, no comic creation was "righter" than Flanders' young cannibal who decided, one day, that "eatin' people is wrong." Well, I guess I thought George Gobel was pretty funny...
Arnall is an odds-on favorite to trounce Maddox in next week's runoff. In the November election, he will run head-on into a powerhouse Republican candidate, Representative Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, who is also a millionaire. A states'-righter who was elected on the tails of Barry Goldwater's 1964 Georgia victory, Callaway is given at least an even chance of defeating Arnall, to become Georgia's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction...
...Representative Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, who two years ago was elected Georgia's first Republican Congressman since Reconstruction, officially announced his candidacy for the governorship. A states' righter and segregationist of the George Wallace stripe, Callaway promised a "new Declaration of Independence" for Georgians, vowed to resist "the unwarranted onslaught of federal domination" of the state's affairs. With no opposition in his own party, Callaway is given at least an even chance against the disorganized Democrats (TIME, May 7), whose candidate in November will most likely be former Governor Ellis Arnall, 59, an outspoken liberal...
...Consensus v. Challenge." Neither a political conservative nor a dogmatic states-righter, Burns, a history professor at Williams College and sometime adviser to John Kennedy, sees much that is good and necessary in what has happened. Yet he fears its future implications, when what he calls the "corruption of consensus" may ultimately cause the Government to become "flabby and complacent and lose the cutting edge of energy, initiative and innovation." He predicts that "the passion will have disappeared, and increasingly the compulsion of purpose will be dissipated...
...wonder how States'-Righter Barry Goldwater would curb the lawlessness and civil disobedience in cities that are supposed to be locally administered...