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...overall, was running in a meet for the first time since October 4. He has been bothered by tendon problems. Coach "Pappy" Hunt emphasized that it takes time for these conditions to really heal, and that with every two steps forward in that direction, they seem to take one backward...
...high jump, two U.S. jumpers won the gold and silver medals. Dick Fosbury, famous for his backward flip, won, and Ed Caruthers was the runner...
Alabama, a historically backward state, scarcely inched ahead during Wallace's regime. With a 4% sales tax and a low property levy, its tax structure is biased against lower-income workers. As Governor, Wallace sponsored a law providing that corporate income taxes can be raised only by constitutional amendment. He did raise spending greatly, but only by floating huge bond issues and obtaining massive grants for highways and education from the despised Federal Government...
...campaign by calling Hubert Humphrey "squishy soft" on Communism, a charge he hastily retracted. Two weeks ago, he denounced a charge of "collusion" with George Wallace, only to discover that the charge had been made against the Democrats by Dick Nixon. In Casper, Wyo., Agnew put a Stetson on backward and talked about wheat prices to sheep and cattle ranchers. On KULR-TV in Billings, Mont., he hinted that the Republicans had a solution to the war, forcing Nixon into a weary "what-Mr.-Agnew-meant-to-say" denial...
...object was to cast Humphrey as the heavy: a hawk on Viet Nam, a racist for not having agreed to the peremptory disac creditation of several Southern delegations, an autocrat when it came to seating arrangements and telephone allocations. Humphrey's men, in fact, bent over backward to be equitable...