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With the state growing rapidly the conservative Byrd-machine which ruled it for several decades has steadily declined during the '60's. In its place three distinct factions have risen. Though the Byrd-machine placed Gov. Mills E. Godwin in office, he has gradually shifted over to the moderate faction of the party; the moderates under Sen. William B. Sprong's leadership are a swing group who now have widespread electoral support; the liberals led by Henry Howell of Norfolk have significant organizational and electoral support in black urban areas and white suburban communities around the District of Columbia...
Died. Becky Godwin, 14, adopted daughter of Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr.; of injuries suffered when she was struck by lightning; in Virginia Beach...
...brings American radicals surprisingly close to what he regards as the final spiral in their evolution, "a frontal assault on the authority of the state." Enter the radicals of the 1960s right on cue, taking literally the nearly 200-year-old advice of the influential English political philosopher William Godwin, who declared that established authority has no more right to regulate an individual's actions than to regulate his thoughts...
Virginia (54): No delegates will be chosen until July 27, and Governor Mills E. Godwin is expected to keep them uncommitted until he can strike a favorable bargain...
Credit Credo. First, Godwin, who played a major role in Virginia's "massive resistance" to school integration in 1959-60, rammed through a state sales tax, boosted public school spending by 35% but resisted the big step: borrowing. This year Godwin took that step. "We cannot refuse to do what has to be done," he insisted. "Most of us would still be living with our in-laws and driving a horse and buggy if it were not for that great institution known as American credit." Though they gulped, most old-line Byrdmen went along. The assembly (in which...