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...Arkansas Democrat Orval E. Faubus began his record sixth term by asking the legislature to 1) pass a constitutional amendment calling for reapportionment on a basis other than population, and 2) send it to "this misguided group of people who are supposed to be judges on the Supreme Court." Then Faubus got busy trying to make good on two campaign promises: a multimillion-dollar road-building program and a $1,000 raise for each of Arkansas' 16,756 public-school teachers...
...Orval Faubus saw no reason to change the tactics that had won for him five consecutive two-year gubernatorial terms. So the "po' boy from Greasy Creek" unloaded corn pone on the electorate and calumny on the head of his Repub'ican opponent, Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson's younger brother. Rockefeller's energetic campaigning and well-financed organization were not enough, and Faubus won by a country mile...
PRESIDENT Johnson 88,097 Goldwater 61,265 GOVERNOR Faubus (D) 172,796 Rockefeller...
Arkansas: Only a few days ago, the chances seemed as thin as one of his granddaddy's dimes, but Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, 52, could now upset five-term Democrat Orval Faubus, 54, if resentment over the Jenkins case builds...
Such talk still goes over well in Arkansas, and Faubus is favored over Rockefeller. Even so, there should be one benefit: Rockefeller has already pumped enormous new energy into the once defunct Arkansas Republican Party, has 10,000 workers out beating the precincts for votes, even managed to find 172 Republican candidates to run for local offices this year, compared with a measly seven who dared try in 1960. And Rockefeller has committed himself to run for Governor again in 1966. "Win or lose," he says, "there'll be a two-party system in Arkansas after...