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...White suburbanites, feeling the push of black families moving into their neighborhoods, wary of the threatening black men they see rioting in the cities, are now less eager to ram integration down the Southern gullet. George Wallace has found a constituency in the North that Strom Thurmond or Orval Faubus would never have...
Arkansas (6): Wallace runs well in Orval Faubus' old stomping grounds, but it should go to Humphrey...
...first hint of brutality and murder at the farms. Shortly after Governor Winthrop Rockefeller took office in 1967, he released a 67-page state-police prison report, ordered and then suppressed by former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped...
...homeowner happens to be former Governor Orval Faubus, who served six two-year terms before stepping down, voluntarily, in 1966. The boy from Greasy Creek-the ruins of his log cabin birthplace are just 15 miles from his present home-came into office in 1955, owning one weekly newspaper. By being "frugal" with his $10,000-a-year gubernatorial salary, as he puts it, he managed to acquire four more weeklies, and some real estate in Huntsville, as well as the big house on the hill (which drew 1,100 paying guests during the first weekend it was open...
...That," says Republican State Executive Secretary Truman Altenbaumer, "is what I call a real slick trick." The Republicans claim that the house cost at least $250,000, plus $60,000 to furnish, keep wondering aloud where the money came from. "Let 'em wonder," says Faubus, who insists that it cost only $100,000 and carries a $75,000 mortgage. "When the time is ripe, I'll explode all their myths...