Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace drew 33,078 votes. Other results were scattered, with 3530 students voting for the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., listed on the ballot as an independent candidate. Perennial candidate Harold Stassen finished last, with 1033 votes...
Advocate of Wallace. From Gait's relationship with Stein came hints that Gait had at least a speaking acquaintance with Hollywood supporters of the presidential bid of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Stein said Gait agreed to take him to New Orleans only after Stein had agreed to sign a Wallace petition. Gait took him to the Wallace North Hollywood headquarters, and so well-known was Gait there that Stein presumed him to be some kind of politician. Wallace headquarters aides say that their files list no one named Gait...
Other candidates include Oregon Governor Mark O. Hatfield former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, New York Mayor John V. Lindsay, Sen, Charles Percy (R-III.), California Governor Ronald Reagan, New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, perennial candidate Har-old Stassen, and former Governor of Alabama George C. Wallace...
...present status as the world's most violent advanced country. Among industrialized countries, Canada's homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000; France's is .8; England's only .7. Within the U.S., the rate typically surges upward from .5 in Vermont to 11.4 in Alabama. In some Northern ghettos, it hits 90, just as it did some years ago in the King murder city of Memphis. Texas, home of the shoot-out and divorce-by-pistol, leads the U.S. with about 1,000 homicides a year, more than 14 other states combined. Houston...