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...Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...
With Lyndonesque panache, Kentucky's Governor Edward Breathitt last week signed a state civil rights bill beneath a huge bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln in the capitol rotunda at Frankfort, then handed out 40 pens as mementoes of the occasion. He had reason to be proud...
...Governor Breathitt, who was almost defeated in 1963 because of his civil rights stand, called the act a "moral commitment kept after 100 years of hope deferred." Said he: "Many will remember what we have done today. Let history record what we shall do in the long tomorrow...
Last year, for example, Edward Breathitt defeated A.B. Chandler in the Democratic primary for governor of Kentucky. Race was not the most important issue in the campaign and the polls taken for Breathitt predicted his margin precisely...
Before the election in November, however, Democratic Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order outlawing segregation in businesses licensed by the state. Breathitt's Republican opponent, Louis Nunn, attacked him on this issue vigorously. Still Breathitt's polls showed him leading Nunn with 58 per cent up until election day. Breathitt won by a bare majority...