Word: faubusism
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...wonderful to see that we have men like Governors Barnett, Faubus and Wallace who are not willing to lose what freedom there is left. The American people are so stupid. They are being sold down the river to buy a few lousy votes for some greedy and vote-hungry office seekers...
...found a ten-carat stone. It ought to bring $8,000, says Wood, and it is not the only diamond that he has found. "I don't do no digging,'' he says. "I just walk and look." He plans to name his find the Orval E. Faubus diamond, for his state's Governor...
...Curious Sequence. But if President Kennedy was reluctant to talk, others were not. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus said that as many as 25 Arkansas Air National Guardsmen had been recruited by the "Federal Government" to train anti-Castro Cubans. Some of the Arkansans, he said, flew combat missions over the Bay of Pigs-an assertion denied by the White House...
...well and good. But the squire of Petit Jean Mountain is also an active Republican-and in Arkansas, that's not so good. Last year, with Rockefeller as G.O.P. state chairman, the Republicans actually put up 22 candidates for the state legislature. Rockefeller personally financed campaigns against Faubus and Senator William Fulbright. All the Democrats, of course, won. But they had been given a bit of a scare, and Faubus decided to do something about...
Sneaking Suspicion. A few weeks ago, Faubus inspired a bill to abolish the A.I.D.C. This was such a transparent hatchet job that even some legislative Democrats rose to defend Rockefeller. Then, one man introduced a bill that would have prohibited any party official-Rockefeller, that is-from sitting on the A.I.D.C. This brought a deluge of angry telegrams and phone calls from all over the state, and Orval Faubus, a pretty shrewd judge of local sentiment, temporarily called off the attack...