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Glen Ashman Decatur...
...From Decatur, Ala., to Windsor, Ont., tornado winds chewed up homes and businesses, sent cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from...
...aide. "The Governor is like Minnie Pearl when she says, 'Ah'm jes glad to be here.' Party stalwarts who once denounced Wallace as a bigot are now treating him like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with the Governor at a celebration in Decatur, Ala.; in February, Senator Henry Jackson journeyed South, where he said he would be glad to have Wallace on the ticket with him in 1976. The Governor also met with his old foe, AFL-CIO President George Meany, who came away doubting that he would vote for Wallace but acknowledging...
...America and the Future of Man." She read it carefully, then clipped it out and stuck it in a manila folder. Across town, Schoolteacher Jim Fallen, 34, ripped out the piece and added it to a growing stack on a table in his bedroom. And across the U.S., from Decatur, Ala., to Saint Cloud, Minn., others read and saved the same article, which is part of a novel college course on the American experience offered to millions of readers through the columns of their local newspaper...
...object is to see who can shoot his 200-pound anvil the furthest. As one man in the Decatur crowd said, all these politicians were fine with him, but he sure hated to miss the anvil shooting.Governor GEORGE C. WALLACE...