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...riffled the newspapers like Lyndon Johnson with his polls of old. "I carried every county in the state. See here. I even carried Dade County. Dade 10th: 13,500. Dade 11th: 22,000." As the plane soared into the azure sky, the candidate kept looking at the figures and talking. Now and again Cornelia would butt in for some comment on the press's treatment of George and how he is misunderstood. He would tell her to "hush now, I'm talking...
...anti-Establishment slogan, "Send them a message." Wallace's polls had given him some 32% of the vote; privately he hoped to do as well as 35%, about as much as any outside analyst conceded him. When an aide told him that he would carry Miami's Dade County, Wallace berated him for faulty research. As the returns rolled in, Wallace's elation mounted. "The people of Florida sent a message to the national political leaders," he crowed. "We beat the face cards of the Democratic deck. This has been the turning point in American politics...
Under the cover of night on April 21, 1970, five Miamians, calling themselves the "Eco-Commando Force '70," sneaked into six sewage-treatment plants and threw packets of yellow dye into the works. The next day half of Dade County's canals turned bright yellow, graphically illustrating that Miami's inadequately treated sewage does not get far from home...
...asking people to fly as part of our airline. It's the live stuff that gets to men, that makes them think 'let's fly with National and see what they have.' " Some stewardesses have refused to wear the buttons; Florida's Dade County Circuit Court has turned down a national women's organization request for a restraining order to ground the campaign. National pleads innocence. Says Public Relations Director Robert Mattel: "The stewardesses become an extension of the airline. We had no preconceived idea of injecting a suggestive leer into the campaign...
Plea Bargaining. Meanwhile, the new standards had been modified to give authorities more time. But Dade County still had more than 5,000 cases to dispose of and the time limit now has run out for all those who were awaiting trial when the new rules went into effect. Right up to the deadline, prosecutors and judges were engaging in a frantic binge of plea bargaining-allowing defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges to avoid the time and expense of trials. There simply was no way to try everyone. Overcrowded Florida court calendars may now be a problem...