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...march toward equality?a march begun in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"?the path was simpler to follow. It was not hard to distinguish hero from villain when President Eisenhower dispatched Screaming Eagle paratroopers to keep Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' National Guardsmen from blocking the admittance of nine black children to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. Nor was it hard to choose sides after viewing the twisted faces of white housewives snarling at four frightened black children trying to desegregate New Orleans' grade schools in 1960. President...
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...
...Scene of the 1957 encounter between Governor Orval Faubus' Arkansas authorities and federal troops enforcing court-ordered school desegregation...
...George Wallace had been casting about for a running mate, often in pretty strange waters. He considered "Colonel" Harland Sanders, the fried-chicken king ("It's finger-lickin' good"). He looked over Paul Harvey, a right-wing newscaster, former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and Orval Faubus, the ex-Governor of Arkansas. He nearly chose A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, the former Governor and Senator from Kentucky, but Chandler proved too moderate on the race issue. Last week, after jokingly warning reporters that "I'm full of surprises," he announced his decision: retired Air Force General Curtis...