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Running against Faubus is Republican Winthrop (or, as he now bills himself, "Win") Rockefeller, 52, fourth of the five Rockefeller brothers, who moved eleven years ago from New York to the 34,000-acre Winrock Farms, 65 miles from Little Rock...
...Faubus, figuring a Rockefeller would be quite an attraction for new business, picked Win to be chairman of the newly created Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. It was probably the best move Faubus has made as Governor. Before Rockefeller's resignation early this year, the A.I.D.C. had helped bring in 600 new plants, 90,000 new jobs, $270 million in new annual payroll income. Moreover, Rockefeller put hundreds of thousands of his own dollars into schools, scholarships and cultural facilities around his part of the state...
...with a Plan. Rockefeller's speeches are short and always extemporaneous. He consistently cracks Faubus for low teachers' salaries and for the "deplorable condition" of state roads. Speaking at a new plant-dedication ceremony in Forrest City, Ark., last summer, Rockefeller fractured Faubus by complaining that his campaign bus had been plagued by constant breakdowns-caused mostly by jouncing over so many miles of "Faubus Freeways." Rockefeller also attacks the Governor as the boss of a massive political machine. "My opponent is also visiting all the counties," cries Winthrop, "but he heads for the courthouse to a secret...
...Faubus, plainly worried, has attacked Rockefeller as a carpetbagger, conjured up pitiful images of a poor little country boy running against the Rockefeller millions, seen to it that everyone has been reminded frequently of Rockefeller's sensational 1954 divorce and the subsequent $6,000,000 settlement with his first wife, Bobo. Stooping to the ludicrous, the Faubus workers have even sent broadsides to Arkansas barbers, claiming that Rockefeller always hops into his jet and flies to New York to get his haircuts...
Against Rockefeller, a onetime trustee of the Urban League, Faubus has also returned to the all-out segregationist stands that made him a national figure in 1957. Last month he shouted about Negro demonstrators: "The first time they lie down in the streets to block traffic of a legitimate business, they're going to get run over. And if no one else will do it, I'll get in a truck and do it myself...