Clicking along at an 18-hour-a-day clip, the Dixiecrats' Candidate J. Strom Thurmond turned up one night last week with his pretty wife Jean for an outdoor supper in Augusta, Ga. and a rally in the Municipal Auditorium. The crowd of 3,000 was well-scrubbed, well-dressed and soberly attentive. Candidate Thurmond's appeal, it was clear, was to Augusta's upper classes.
With his forefinger chopping at the microphone, Thurmond told his listeners that what they had to fear was "a new kind of police state with all power centered in Washington." Cried he: "There are forces at work in this country today which...
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