Word: holton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's 20 members were also split up into three subcommittees, one on each area. Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and vice-chairman of the committee, will chair the Natural Sciences subcommittee; Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, the Social Sciences committee; and James S. Ackerman, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, the Humanities committee...
Despite staunch support from Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic machine in Virginia's gubernatorial election last month, Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin won only after beating down a strong challenge by Republican Candidate A. Linwood Holton, who captured 38% of the votes-and proved that the state could no longer be considered a Byrd sanctuary. Last week brought even more impressive evidence of change in the Old Dominion. The occasion was a special election to fill the state senate seat vacated by Harry F. Byrd Jr., 51, whose appointment to the U.S. Senate last month in place...
...Hereditary Position?" It may have been the Byrd dynasty's swan song. As Republican Moderate A. Linwood Holton showed by racking up 38% of the vote in this month's gubernatorial election, Virginia is no longer an unchallenged Democratic fiefdom. "Little Harry," in some ways more rigidly conservative than his father, helped master mind the state's "massive resistance" campaign to school desegregation in 1959, is hardly likely to win the increas ingly influential votes of Virginia's Ne groes. If an attractive moderate opposes him in the Senate primary next July, Little Harry, a state...
...legislature: "This Goldwater thing was just too much for us. It's a helluva thing to overcome." The "Goldwater thing," of course, is the residue of resentment with which most Negroes still regard Barry Goldwater's stand on civil rights in the 1964 campaign. While Holton loyally supported Goldwater last year, Godwin whistle-stopped through Virginia with Mrs. Lyndon Johnson on her Lady Bird Special. To many Negroes and liberals, a vote for Godwin was simply a vote of confidence for the Great Society, whose goals he endorsed. Diehard white supremacists from both parties bolted to the conservative...
...Holton carried two of the state's congressional districts: his own Roanoke area and the Tenth District in suburban Washington, which is heavily populated by federal employees; they can generally be expected to support a liberal candidate, and they plainly favored Republican Holton over his Byrd-backed opponent. If Holton moderates can resist the temptation to team up with the conservative-segregationist element, the G.O.P. will offer the Byrd machine even more serious challenges in future elections-when, presumably, the Goldwater thing will have faded...