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George Wallace, the dreaded unknown factor, proved to be primarily a sectional candidate after all. His major impact was confined to the Deep South, where, as expected, he and his running mate, Curtis LeMay, carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. Nowhere in the industrial Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters...
...week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Berio led the New York Philharmonic and the Swingle Singers in the world premiere of his Sinfonia. It is a white-hot musical experience that invokes the malaise of the times better than all the sit-ins, beards, beads and clubbings that wrench contemporary life...
...With a wrench, the mood of Czechoslovakia suddenly changed. Resuming operations, the official press, radio and television began to speak of the Russian invaders as "the visiting fraternal forces." Overt opposition all but ended, and most Czechoslovaks did their best to tolerate their unwanted visitors. While they still felt great animosity to ward their occupiers, they nonetheless recognized that since they had not resisted at the moment of the invasion, it was useless to provoke repressive measures by acts of defiance now. As a result, the country began to assume at least a veneer of normality. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath...
...picked up a wrench to hit David with," Mrs. Common continued. "I told him not to do it because he would hurt trade and wouldn't no one work for him. I took David across the street, 'cos you can walk away from trouble better than you can walk out. On my way back the man passed me running with a piece of iron, I said 'Look out, David'. When David turned to look round, the man met him with the piece of iron. David fell down and the man struck him again when...
Bullhorns & Diapers. Abernathy would probably be happy to get so visible a location, since the main purpose of the campaign is to wrench the national conscience and prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants...