In the face of radical change and racial upheaval, she stood up for white ethnics and the traditional values they professed: home and church, neighborhood and flag. "You know where I stand" was her campaign slogan in the 1967 mayoral race. To admirers, Mrs. Hicks spoke the truth to liberal power in simple declarative sentences.
Other elected officials refrained from asking a question she posed almost gleefully: "If the suburbs are honestly interested in solving the problems of the Negro, why don't they build subsidized housing for them?"
[...] a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, wild eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as "Rawhide" and "Wichita," has died,
"In the old days, Rory Calhoun was the hero because he was the hero and I was the heavy because I was the heavy - and nobody cared what my problem was. And I didn't either," he added. "I robbed the bank because I wanted the money ... I've played all kinds of weirdos but I've never done the quiet, sick type. I never had a problem - other than the fact I was just bad."
One thing about Louise -- though she sounded like a genuine racist -- the point she made about the suburbs doing their best to keep "Negroes" out, so that Boston became the scapegoat city, forsaw the future of the metro area all too well.
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Date: 2003-10-22 07:02 am (UTC)CZ
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Date: 2003-10-22 09:59 am (UTC)Jack Elam: - http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7071265.htm
Now I know who those two people were... thanks.
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