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However, the blame should not all be placed on Governor Wallace, for the "nonviolence" movements of Martin Luther King and his lieutenants have stirred up so much racial strife and feeling that they are directly responsible for these sad results. PHIL K. COCHRAN Shreveport...
...northwest Louisiana's Fourth Congressional District, liberals are about as popular as the cottonmouths that abound in the swamps about Shreveport. Last week, in a special election to fill the seat of Democratic Representative Overton Brooks, who died Sept. 16, the voters of the Fourth had just the sort of choice they liked: arch-Conservative Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr., 43, was pitted against arch-Conservative Republican Charlton H. Lyons, 67. When the votes were counted, Waggonner was the winner -by 33,846 votes to 28,275, a remarkably narrow margin for a Democratic congressional candidate in Louisiana...
...Life. Last week, between showings of Fanny, customers got 37 minutes of Americana that included the choir from Centenary College in Shreveport, La., singing Beautiful Dreamer before a backdrop of amiably winking stars. French tumblers sang while they somersaulted, and a ballet was performed before a village bandstand to John Philip Sousa marches, in which the dancers spread their skirts in semicircular swirls, suggesting so many red, white and blue cheese cutters. And, of course, the celebrated chorus line of Rockettes was there, kicking and tapping with brilliant puellageneity. In the end, a glowing reproduction of the Statue of Liberty...
Davis had played with the racists too long to move suddenly without them, and the effort to get a bill foundered in the closing hours of the special session. Cried Extremist Wellborn Jack, of Shreveport: "They're not gonna put you in contempt. They're not gonna have the guts to do it." But Jimmie Davis knew something about Bobby Kennedy's guts. At week's end, with the legislature on its way home, he found some extra money in a special fund and earmarked it to pay the New Orleans teachers...
...this a fine jambalaya-with Earl Long, the Times-Picayune, [Plaquemines Parish Boss&] Leander Perez, the Shreveport Times . . . the old regulars-this all put together in one pot ... a mixture that the entire history of Louisiana has never seen before? I am confident the public will bury the whole pot of jambalaya with an avalanche of votes."So spoke New Orleans' four-term Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison as his Democratic runoff campaign for Governor of Louisiana approached its climax...