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...thus puts a premium on mail expertise and mailing lists. Wallace has hired Richard A. Viguerie, a Virginia professional fund raiser who has effectively served such controversial clients as the National Rifle Association, the Rev. Billy James Hargis and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. He has steadily refined old Wallace mailing lists, adding such groups as the nation's policemen and subscribers to the Saturday Evening Post and the National Review. He has developed a list of 2.5 million "favorable supporters," at least 300,000 of whom he feels confident can be relied on for money. According to Wallace...
...also turned around. They apparently felt that if they refused to compromise, the liberals might muster enough votes to gain a complete victory. On the first critical vote testing support of the compromise, it prevailed, 73 to 21. The holdouts included Republicans William Brock, Howard Baker, Barry Goldwater, Strom Thurmond and John Tower, as well as Democrats John Stennis and Herman Talmadge. The final vote to approve the compromise...
...Have you hugged your kid today?" asks one of the new columns in some 20 South Carolina newspapers. The columnist is Nancy Thurmond, 28, Miss South Carolina of 1966, and the wife of Senator Strom Thurmond, 72. Though she admits that she is a newcomer to child rearing (her own kids are only 11 months, 2 and 3), Nancy has completed three installments of her feature titled "Mother's Medicine," and hopes that her advice will "make the day go better" for some of her husband's constituents...
...another in a federal building in Oakland. Peace marchers rallying in Washington, exhorted by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Congressman-Priest Robert Drinan, Folk Singers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Demonstrators occupying the Minneapolis and Washington offices of Hubert Humphrey, temporarily seizing the South Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco. Senator Strom Thurmond bellowing through a bullhorn in support of the Saigon regime...
...Attles-Barry leadership has paid off. The Warriors' new center, Clifford Ray, acquired in the deal for Thurmond, has been an outstanding defensive player and rebounder. Barry's teammate at forward is Rookie Keith ("Silk") Wilkes, a U.C.L.A. product who has retained all of his smooth college shooting skills. At the guard spots, Golden State has two solid ball handdlers and playmakers in Butch Beard and Charles Johnson...