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Winthrop Rockefeller is confident that he will defeat Orville Faubus next year to become Arkansas' first Republican governor in this century. Last night he spelled out his formulas and his views on the GOP's future in the South for the Harvard Young Republicans...
Rockefeller's narrow loss to the Faubus last year did not dampen his optimism. "Republicans can not only consolidate their gains in the South, but we can also make a tremendous and permanent contribution to the national party," he said...
...covers devoted to searching inquiries into the many aspects of the civil rights crisis-as seen from the North, the South and the middle-has included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
Other Southern segregationists are going still farther and conceding that they are not so much bought as beaten. Arkansas' Orval Faubus is admitting that "there is quite a difference" between his old recalcitrant days of 1957 and the present. "Congress now has passed a law, and it is the law of the land." Thus one of his education department officials has warned possible holdout districts: "Those that go it alone are going to find themselves in court." And even in Mississippi, the president of the Greenville city school board has faced up to the fact that "the real choice...
...Virgil Blossom, 58, school superintendent of Little Rock, Ark., during the 1957 integration crisis, who won the city's 1955 Man of the Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...