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...with a Plan. Rockefeller's speeches are short and always extemporaneous. He consistently cracks Faubus for low teachers' salaries and for the "deplorable condition" of state roads. Speaking at a new plant-dedication ceremony in Forrest City, Ark., last summer, Rockefeller fractured Faubus by complaining that his campaign bus had been plagued by constant breakdowns-caused mostly by jouncing over so many miles of "Faubus Freeways." Rockefeller also attacks the Governor as the boss of a massive political machine. "My opponent is also visiting all the counties," cries Winthrop, "but he heads for the courthouse to a secret...
...unrealistic for the President and the leadership to suppose that a bill with even the compromise version attached might pass the House in the adjournment rush. The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Wilbur Mills (D.-Ark.), had openly declared he would use every weapon available to prevent such action. And the full House had given ample testimony to its very conservative stature this session by passing such legislation as the Tuck amendment barring the Supreme Court from any consideration of legislative reapportionment...
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...novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn't go through. But before Denney can rouse his rabble...
...solar furnace to an electron accelerator. For a hobby he builds fountains, is now on his ninth. He studies with stereo earphones whispering light classical music to him. He will attend New College in Sarasota, Fla., move on to postgraduate research in physics. > Jacquelyn Faye Evans of Little Rock, Ark., made her achievements (straight A's) amid notably tense circumstances as one of the few Negro students to enter and stay at Little Rock's Hall High School after it was integrated by federal troops. "The identity crisis was there at first," she says, "but I got along...