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...thatch of hair that is solid grey. But Alabama's Clyde Morton is as lean and tough as a bottomland sapling, and he still has a young man's grace when he swings a long leg over the saddle and rides out to the field trials to match his bird dogs against the best in the nation. Rival trainers unabashedly gawk when Morton and his pointers begin to hunt for quail in the South's winter-barren cornfields and amid the tufts of sedge and lespedeza. "Clyde Morton," says one owner, "is to dog trials what Babe...
...Morton not only has permanently retired ten of the sport's major trophies, but he has eleven times won the "world series" of field trials: the National Bird Dog championship, held near Grand Junction, Tenn., where the quail burst into the air like clouds of ash, and the loping dogs may cover up to 45 miles during a three-hour hunt...
...Whoa" & "Woof." Last week, busily at work with his year-old pointers, Morton explained the art and science of training dogs to hunt birds. "A dog has to learn to scent the body of the bird, not his track," said Morton, "or else he'll be pointing at where the bird was instead of where he is. If a breeze is blowing toward him, a good dog can pick up the scent of a bird 100 yards away...
...Morton already had launched a vigorous program for this year's local elections, with his eye especially on the Governors' chairs in New Jersey and Virginia. He had started a national registration drive and set up a watchdog committee to deal with election frauds. He was determined, too, to go after the big-city vote-"our Achilles heel in the last election"-and nominated successful big-city Republicans to show...
...matters of principle, there was plenty of confusion. Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen noted that the Kennedy Administration had failed to propose a civil rights bill, promised to "unfurl" one of his own. Morton agreed that it would be a smart move, but House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find...