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Flat. In something more than ritual confirmation of that theme, George Wallace was hoisted in his wheelchair onto the stage to present his defiantly divergent opinions on the party platform. He attempted a joke about having attended one too many political rallies this year; when it fell flat, he knew he was not among his "folks," but the McGovern delegates treated Wallace courteously, as they had been instructed to do and as their leader had promised the Alabaman they would. Only when Wal lace began damning welfare and busing were the few cheers from Florida and other delegations answered with...
Which is just what Wallace is counting on. No one can predict what the rambunctious Governor, even confined to a wheelchair, will do. His campaign manager, Charles Snider, says that Wallace may lead a third party in 1972, and Wallace has been invited to give the keynote address at the American Party Convention next month. But this is probably no more than a threat to keep his leverage within the Democratic Party...
...biggest deterrent to his ambitions remains, of course, his physical condition (see MEDICINE). Wallace is far too weak to think seriously of launching a third-party campaign. Some of his aides suggested a media campaign that would let the Governor stay at home in his wheelchair, but that is not his style. If he led a third party, he might take electoral votes in the South away from Nixon, and keep enough conservative northern Democratic voters from switching to Nixon to give McGovern a chance in states like Michigan. That he intends to remain a good Democrat is bad news...
...ideological leverage he could apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers. Then he flew on to Miami. All the while, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills continued its last-minute efforts. A small Washington group of strategists bent...
Kari Harrington is seven years old and a victim of severe cerebral palsy. Thus she lacks the muscular coordination necessary for controlled movement and speech, and is virtually restricted to a wheelchair. Like many other victims of the disease, she will never be able to move around normally or speak well enough to be understood. Now an experimental training program that uses printed symbols to convey meaning has begun to draw her out of her isolated world...