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INDIANA. One high point of Wallace's characteristically helter-skelter campaign in Indiana was a $25-a-plate lunch at the Indianapolis Hilton, which drew, among others, Grand Dragon William Chaney of the state Ku Klux Klan and Frank Thompson, head of a local John Birch Society chapter, who listed Wallace's credentials: "He's American, he's Christian, he's experienced." Humphrey did not start campaigning in Indiana until seven days before last week's primary, and at that he had to divide his time between Indiana and neighboring Ohio. Humphrey squeaked through...
...petitioning for inclusion on the ballot is largely behind him. A full-time campaign staff of 30-augmented by hundreds of volunteers-is already at work cranking out newsletters and magazines, planning fund-raising dinners and plotting strategy. Wallace will concentrate on regional television broadcasts instead of the helter-skelter personal campaigning of '68. To smooth his image, he has sought and received advice on television technique from Evangelist Billy Graham...
...submission so that they can keep a constant vigil against it," warns Sanders in his preface; at the end of the book he is somewhat more dramatic and angry: "Only when all these evil affairs are known and exposed can the curse of ritual sacrifice, Helter Skelter and satanism be removed from the coasts and mountains of California." Paranoia? Perhaps, but given the state of California, given the state of the whole country, given the tremendous proliferation of satanic, blood-and-gore-worshipping cults, I would not hesitate to believe anything...
...Helter skelter...
...Manson, Bugliosi said, the meaning of helter-skelter was clear: a violent black uprising against whites. Manson would escape it by leading his drugs-and-sex caravan of followers into the California desert, but first he would precipitate helter-skelter by making other whites think it had arrived. That is why the words were written in blood when Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca, a middle-aged couple, were murdered in their home in the Los Feliz area the night after the Tate killings...