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...Virginia nears the rare chance to choose both its U.S. senators in the same year (for the first time since 1911), vote-catching in the Old Dominion has assumed an Alice in Wonderland character...
...Apathy. Nowhere is the X-factor of Negro participation more potentially decisive than in Virginia, where three Democratic incumbents who personify the Old Dominion's conservative tradition are being challenged in the July 12th primary. U.S. Representative Howard Worth ("Judge") Smith, 83, longtime chairman of the House Rules Committee, is seeking his 19th House term, faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign...
...bailiwick, Rawlings hopes that the district's increased Negro vote may prove the decisive factor-as it could in the other two races. Statewide, 61,096 more Virginia Negroes are enfranchised than in 1964, increasing total Negro voting strength to 205,000, or 19.7% of the Old Dominion's 1964 election turnout. The increase is particularly significant in Virginia, since for years less than 20% of voting-age citizens have taken part in the elections that have kept the Byrd Establishment in power...
...Virginia, former State Senator Armistead L. Boothe announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary against Senator Harry F. ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, appointed last fall as interim successor to his aging father. An eloquent Alexandria attorney and former Rhodes Scholar, Boothe, 58, won 45% of the Old Dominion's Democratic primary vote in an unsuccessful 1961 try for the lieutenant-governorship, in 1964 supported Lyndon Johnson, while the Byrds followed a policy of "golden silence." Harry Jr.'s situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other...
Before 1953, as far as the Canadian government was concerned, the dominion's 12,000 Eskimos ranked about with caribou for concern and polar bears for utility. Strewn across millions of square miles of permafrost, they were a depleted and dying culture, helplessly locked in old patterns, too weak to accommodate new. That year Canada's conscience underwrote a radical new experiment to save the Eskimos by making them self-sufficient. Edith Iglauer's book tells of the leap, "literally for their lives," into the modern world...