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Bumpers jolted Arkansas last month, however, by collecting 19% of the Democratic primary vote for Governor. He thus knocked off two veteran politicians and forced a runoff with Orval Faubus, who was the state's vote-pulling champion in six successive gubernatorial elections before retiring in 1967. In the second and decisive round last week, Bumpers overwhelmed Faubus with nearly 60% of the vote...
Noble Profession. One reason for the upset was that Bumpers came across as a cool, rational and intensely sincere candidate whose natural style contrasted sharply with the contrived, emotional preachings of Faubus. Articulate, handsome and husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Bumpers, 45, laughed readily, shunned speech texts, spoke quietly and candidly of the need for prison reform, better roads, higher teacher salaries, more vocational training and better programs for the poor. He countered Faubus' attempts to stir racial fears by saying that he too was against busing to achieve racial balance in schools. Yet when he was a school...
...Faubus' personal attacks merely rebounded off Bumpers' wholesome persona. The son of a hardware-store owner who had served in the state legislature, Bumpers has been a Scoutmaster, Sunday school teacher, World War II Marine sergeant and smart-stepping bandsman (trumpet) at the University of Arkansas. He took over the family store when his parents were killed in a 1949 auto crash, later sold it to buy a 360-acre farm and raise Angus cattle. He sold some of the cattle to finance his campaign against Faubus...
...preparing for what he believes, and publicly says he hopes, will be a face-to-face encounter with Faubus in the general election...
...sense, the election here is an endmtozian era of Arkansas politics. Faubus is 63, his hair is dyed, and he is slightly stooped over. He is as fiery and as eloquent as ever, and he is surely the most masterful campaigner of all' 13 candidates, but if he does not win this election, he will never again be a force in state politics...