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Married. Orval Faubus, 59, ex-Governor of Arkansas now directing Dogpatch, U.S.A., a sprawling Ozark park; and Elizabeth Westmoreland, 30, a Dogpatch publicity flak;* both for the second time; in Little Rock...
Divorced. Orval E. Faubus, 59, flamboyant ex-Governor of Arkansas, who recently became president and general manager of Dogpatch U.S.A., the lush Ozark park created by Al Capp; by Alta Faubus, 56; on uncontested grounds of "abuse and steady neglect"; after 37 years of marriage, one son (Attorney Farrell, who filed the suit for his mother); in Huntsville...
After 28 years of uninterrupted victories, Puerto Rico's ex-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party found defeat hard to take...
Some old Senate oaks were cut down. His age, liberalism and prolonged absences from Oklahoma frustrated the fourth-term bid of Mike Monroney, 66, the industrious populist who has been the leading aviation specialist in the Senate. He was beaten by Republican ex-Governor Henry Bellmon, 47. Much the same factors conspired to defeat Alaska's Ernest Gruening, 81, who campaigned so lackadaisically that he lost the Democratic primary...
Shattered Tradition. The Republicans scored several notable upsets. Delaware's Charles L. Terry Jr., at 68 the nation's oldest Governor, was defeated by Republican Russell Peterson, 51, who surged ahead after Terry suffered a heart attack. A civic activist and Du Pont employee, Peterson is a rather dull, determined organizer. Arizona's one-eyed Republican Governor Jack Williams, 59, ran a repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship...