Maddox Eyes 1974 Georgia Governor Bid in Warming Race
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox signals a gubernatorial run in 1974, pledging to undo Carter era state government reforms. A poll shows Maddox leading George Busbee and Bert Lance, while he opposes local option taxes but supports a statewide one cent sales tax. In Jesup, Sen. Roscoe Dean calls for Mary Hitt to be ousted from the Democratic National Committee amid locally political sparring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Lester Maddox
Jimmy Carter
Georgia Municipal Association
Savannah
Maddox
Carter
George Busbee
Bert Lance
GMA
George L. Smith II
Jesup
Roscoe Dean
Mary Hitt
Dean
Thomasville
Metafars Collection Highlights Mangled Speech
A Miami columnist explores metafars a playful form of mangled metaphor or malaprop. Reader examples from Bernie Oelze Naomi Levenson and others showcase phrases like Dont be a wet grape and A leopard never changes his stripes while the metafar’s meaning defies precise definition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Bernie Oelze
Miami News
Oelze
Richard Nixon
Naomi Levenson
S.W
Metafar slang and secret society chatter in a guide
A collection column showcases metafar phrases and tips from collectors and readers. It advises weaving metaters into dialogue to signal insiders, notes playful lines about secrecy, and invites more submissions while warning outsiders won’t grasp the clues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oelze
Sylvan Meyer
Patricia Reddy
Goodman
Nixon plot to derail Wallace with covert cash and pressure
Washington reports that in 1970 the White House funneled 400000 to Wallace's Alabama rivals and pressed him via a tax probe of his brother to block a third party bid in 1972. The scheme, directed by H R Haldeman, used Kalmbach funds and unidentified intermediaries, with no one aware of the final target.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
George Wallace
Nixon
White House
Alabama
Wallace
H.R. Haldeman
Haldeman
Kalmbach
Herbert Kalmbach
New York City
Sherry-Netherland Hotel
France Raine
Sherry-Netherland
Los Angeles
Bank of California
Raine
Wallace, Nor Did They Learn the Identity of the Bagman
Friday
Larry Higby
Gerald
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Service
Gerald Wallace
Wallace Brothers
Internal Revenue
Crack Intelligence Division
Brit Hume
George
Humphrey
Albert Brewer
Mobile
Birmingham
On This Date June 28 Historical Highlights and Birthdays
Highlights note events from 1914 Sarajevo assassination to 1950 Seoul capture plus notable 1919 Versailles treaty. Mentions Khrushchev and Kennedy East/West Berlin visits, Nixon draftee policy last year, and birthdays including Richard Rodgers. References to Wallace tax case involvement and White House debates.
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Associated Press
Noday i
Austria-Hungary
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Bosnia
France
Monmouth
N.J
Molly Pitcher
Victoria
Chicago
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Seoul
Nikita Khrushchev
East Berlin
West Berlin
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nixon
Vietnam
Richard Rodgers
Aristotle
B.C
Watermelon Festival in Monticello Sparks Big Saturday
Jefferson County hosts the 1973 Watermelon Festival with a Saturday parade at 11 a.m. followed by a fish fry and a crowd of contests including baby and Little King and Queen, watermelon eating, seed spitting, and a large melon auction. A Skeeter Davis concert caps the day at the high school stadium with ongoing street entertainment by the Monticello Opera Company.
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Monticello
Florida
Jefferson County
Wacissa
Waukeenah
Dogwood
Cherry Streets
Skeeter Davis
Jefferson County High School
Airbags Look Promising in Real World Tests
Airbag deployments in eight serious crashes show inflations working as designed and saving lives. One inadvertent inflation incident aside, tests indicate strong performance across 1,831 cars from Ford GM and Allstate noted, with a single fluke while officials weigh mandatory safety mandates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
St. Louis
Scarsdale
Department of Transportation
Ford
General Motors
Allstate Insurance Company
Santa Barbara
Calif
Allstate
Patricia Mundy
Mariane Leslie Smith
Valley Park
Patricia
Mariane
Philadelphia
Robert F. Perlin
N.Y
Perlin
Lowell
Mass
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Winton
Blount
Lawson Neel
Frank Twitty
Camilla
Pelham
Amanda Neel
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Thomas County
Keystone County
Georgia-Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Aucilla
Nutall Rise
Albert
Riley
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