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...first head of the newly created Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, Governor Orval Faubus had one admonition: "Think of Arkansas first in all that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...
Senator J. William Fulbright easily won re-election. Democrat Orval E. Faubus was elected to an unprecedented fifth term as Governor...
...ever been sentenced to imprisonment under federal law, and he was convicted of misuse of the mails, a felony that had nothing to do with a conflict of federal and state powers. No state Governor has ever been sentenced for contempt of a federal court. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus made an ugly mess in Little Rock in 1957, but he did not defy any specific federal court order directed at him, and as soon as the Federal Government intervened with force he scuttled off to the sidelines...
...interposition or nullification hasn't got a legal leg to stand on nowadays, it still has the political juice in the South," he added. The doctrine was taken up again by Southern governors in 1956 in a verbal protest against the Court's desegregation decision. Gov. Orville Faubus of Arkansas used "interposition" the following year, and now Barnett "is taking a leaf out of Faubus' book," he said...
During the campaign, Faubus, for the most part, avoided talking on segregation, astutely carved out for himself the image of a moderate. The results, he said, proved "that the people do not wish to wander in the thickets of extremism to either the right or the left...