Word: faubusism
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...were 50 or so ginghamed and gallused townspeople. There were over-ailed men with weathered impassive faces, women with hair combed back severely into tight round buns, country-pretty girls in the early 20s. and children scooting mindlessly through the throng. Silently and intently, they listened as Orval Eugene Faubus, Governor of the sovereign state of Arkansas, told why they should keep him in the air-conditioned splendor of the Governor's mansion down in Little Rock for an unprecedented fifth term...
...Faubus' voice, magnified by a sound truck, filled the tiny square, ripped through the still, oppressive heat and bellowed out over the whole town. Pausing only to drink from a red paper cup or wipe his sweating face with a handkerchief, Faubus appealed to his listeners as "my kind of folk." "I've been an ordinary working person all my life," he said. "I'm a hillbilly. I never was out of the shadow of the green Ozark Mountains until I was well past a man." He recounted the gifts of progress that he had brought...
Alabamans last week picked for their next Governor a man whose segregationist ideas would make Orval Faubus seem like an admirer of the N.A.A.C.P. Winner of a Democratic primary runoff: former Circuit Judge George C. Wallace, 42, of Barbour County...
...Faubus claimed that his ulcers-the main reason for quitting the race-had calmed down during the past month. But there was a more important reason for his readiness to return to the dyspepsia of politics. When his powerful organization failed to come up with a strong candidate for Governor. Faubus decided that he could not sit back and see a bitter political enemy take over the state...
...Faubus' major opponent is Little Rock Attorney Sidney McMath. 49, who was Governor from 1949-53. A former Faubus ally, McMath split with the Governor by criticizing his extremist tactics in opposing school integration in Little Rock in 1957-58. Besides McMath, Faubus will have to contend with five other candidates in the July primary, including another friend turned foe: Segregationist Dale Alford, 46, who was elected to Congress in 1958 in the stormy aftermath of the Little Rock crisis. Plainly, segregation is going to be a primary issue. This is unfortunate, since 48 Negroes now attend three Little...