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...modernistic chemical plant. In Williamsburg, tourists moved quietly, reverently, through shrines that attest to Virginia's historic leadership. Near Berryville, plump apples were being pared, cored, cooked and canned in a spice-fragrant plant owned by Virginia's present-day political leader: U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd. And in Charlottesville, Mrs. Roger Boyle, the antisegregationist wife of a University of Virginia dramatics professor, sorrowfully displayed the charred remnants of a cross that had burned in her backyard because she had said what she thought...
...part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents voting for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd without his authorization (86,000) divided among them a total big enough to exceed the Democratic vote. On behalf of his favorite son, Estes Kefauver, Politico J. Howard McGrath began a small salvage operation in Washington. Kefauver, he said, emerges from the carnage unscarred and running hard...
Others at this protest gathering include Leo Cherne, chairman of the International Rescue Committee, who arrived last Saturday from Budapest, and former Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, committee president, who flew from Austria Wednesday. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, honorary chairman, and General William Donovan, chairman of the national committee, will also speak...
This is how TIME correspondents last week rated the 48 states: Solid for Stevenson: The South is shrinking as a Democratic realm, but Adlai can depend on Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and despite an independent ticket favoring Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina...
...border Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia (all for Ike in 1952), the Democrats are ahead. (But in Virginia, continued silence on the part of Senator Harry Byrd could lose Stevenson his narrow edge...