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...them to succeed themselves. South Carolina's Governors usually spend the latter part of their four-year term looking around for a new job. Embarking on just such a search in 1944, Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, then 47. combined youthful vigor and a slashing attack to unseat Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, a scarred old veteran who broke all existing records for Senate longevity.-This year, at 65 a veteran of more than 17 years in the Senate, Olin Johnston knew how Cotton Ed must have felt. Opposing him in the state's Democratic primary was handsome Governor Ernest...
...Smith spent nearly 36 years in what he called ''The Cave of the Winds," dazzling his colleagues with his overblown oratory and the voters back home with a simple platform that promised to keep i) Negroes down and 2 ) the price of cotton up. He punctuated his Senate speeches with "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding...
...Riviera. Franco's regime is rightly proud of its sprawling Plan Badajoz. the 40-mile-long irrigation project along the Guadiana River near the Portuguese border; here a onetime malarial swamp has been turned into fertile fields that make Spain all but self-sufficient in cotton and rice...
...cotton swab, for example, can be rubbed over a suspect's hand, irradiated, and its gamma rays studied to determine whether the man has fired a gun. Infinitesimal traces of gunpowder components left on the hand by explosion gases show up unmistakably under neutron analysis...
...Over the protests of Republican members, the subcommittee's Democratic majority fired the minority counsel, Republican Lawyer Robert E. Manuel. His offense: giving a New York Herald Tribune reporter a copy of the Agriculture Department's suppressed 1961 report on Estes' illegal dealings in cotton-acreage allotments...