Wallace says Nixon unlikely to win Southern states
Wallace, campaigning in Alabama, doubts Nixon can capture any Southern states citing Nixon's ties to movements that he says have affected schools and domestic institutions in the region. He criticizes the Republican platform as offering no real choice in November and outlines his North Carolina weekend tour and possible national convention site options.
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Ala
George C. Wallace
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Wallace
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Burlington
Winston-Salem
American Independent Party
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Houston
Frustrated Rockefeller heads for home after convention
Miami Beach AP Rockefeller ends week of political frustration as he fails to secure the Republican presidential nomination. He criticizes Nixon’s choice of Spiro Agnew for running mate while applauding Nixon’s victory. Rockefeller declines to speak at length, returns to hotel, plans Maine vacation.
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Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
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Barry M. Goldwater
Michigan
George Romney
Charles A. Sehoneck
New York City
Seal Harbor
Maine
Agnew's Wife Emphasizes Home Life and Cooking
Mrs. Agnew, wife of Gov Spiro Agnew, discusses her role as a housewife and mother while backing her husband’s 1968 campaign. She notes she will speak but is not the family’s primary campaigner, and recalls her background, family, and early life in Baltimore.
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Perer
Self
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Band
Andoear Batoth
Spiro
Pearl Harbor
Shel
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Baltimore
James Randy
Randy
McCarthy Campaigns in Houston for Democratic Nomination
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy arrives in Houston for a campaign tour culminating in an evening rally at Hermann Park with Ralph Yarborough to introduce him. A separate armed robbery in Liberty left a loan firm collector dead after three assailants struck the office. two suspects were captured. Police reported the dead man, Gene Pipes, and noted the Texas delegation’s unit rule issue as McCarthy’s camp criticized the party rules.
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Tex
Eugene J. McCarthy
Houston. Tex
Gene Pipes
Pipes
Liberty
Catineraitjoass
Vietnam
Susan
Texas
Hightower
Houston Post
Kimberley
Hermann Park
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Minnesota
McCarthy
Chicago convention site takes shape at Amphitheatre
AP reporting the International Amphitheatre near Chicago is evolving into a convention hub for the Democratic National Convention opening August 26. Construction includes a north rostrum, news workrooms, TV cabling, and a police command post, with IBEW coordinating communications and a security zone to border Halsted Street and the Stockyards.
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Francis J. Cunningham
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
Ishif
Illinois Bell Telephone Co
All Th‘nois Committee
Humphrey
New York ‘Times
Hubert ‘H. Humphrey
Illinois Bell
William Flanagan
Flanagan
Electrical Workers’ Union
Don Servatius
Humphrey Committee
Halsted Street
Ithis Compound
Employee Killed on Six Flags Ride in Texas
Arlington AP report says 18 year old John Raymond Nelson died when he fell from the El Sombrero ride at Six Flags Over Texas Thursday night. He lost balance while unloading sensors as the device slowed. The accident is the park's first fatality in eight years amid 12 million visitors. Nelson was the son of Mr and Mrs Paul R Nelson of Fort Worth.
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Arlington
Tex
John Raymond Nelson
Six Flags
Fort Worth
Dallas
Composer's Wife Sues for Separate Maintenance
Doren Riddle, wife of composer conductor Nelson Riddle, filed a suit for separate maintenance in Santa Monica charging mental and physical cruelty. She seeks custody of their two underage children as the couple, married 22 years, faces divorce filed on the same grounds.
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Calif
Nelson Riddle
Doren Riddle
Riddle
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