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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have largely been left to the Democratic Party in return for the late Sen. Harry Byrd's "golden silence"--his refusal to support Democratic nominees for President. As a result, Virginia went Republican in 1952, 1956 and 1960. But the outcome of this trade-off with the Byrds has meant a Republican Party far weaker than the voting patterns of the state would indicate it ought...
...Byrd Machine (its supporters refer to it as The Organization) has shown remarkable durability over the past 40 years. It has changed a little bit--maybe more--but it keeps on winning. The success of the Machine was predicated on a low voter turnout. That meant not only discouraging Negroes from voting, but also many poor whites. There have never been any outright bars to the ballot in Virginia, but intricate laws concerning residence requirements and an ingeniously devised web of poll taxes accomplished the same objective in a more sutble way. The electorate was kept within manageably limits...
...studies require an attention to minute details that would have put Sherlock Holmes to shame. The Dennison replica, for example, has tiny marks, meant to represent hammer dents, in the floor. Though they are easy to miss, they are essential clues to solving the murder...
...Slugabed. Editorial writers chided Johnson for flouting doctor's orders, but his physician resolved the dilemma by hedging his postoperative advice. Mayo's Dr. James Cain, an old Johnson friend, said diplomatically: "I meant that President Johnson should not drive a car over rough ranch roads where a sudden stop might be necessary...
...they cannot control. They have killed no fewer than 15,000 local village chiefs since 1957, and regularly heave grenades into sidewalk cafes, detonate plastic bombs in hotels and use other tech niques that accounted for the loss of more than 2,000 lives last year. The terror is meant to slam home the message that nobody is safe anywhere, and that an enemy so ubiquitous must eventually win. In this much-practiced art, few horrors are new-but the Viet Cong are resourceful when it comes to terrorism. For the first time in the war, they have begun kidnaping...