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...views. Both incumbents suffered from the erosion of the Byrd machine, which has lost some of its far-right adherents to a new Conservative Party. On the other hand, among the independent-minded white voters who inhabit swelling suburban developments in a crescent extending from Washington through Richmond to Norfolk, there is little loyalty to the old regime. In addition, tens of thousands of Negroes have been added to the electorate since passage of the 1965 voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts and the largest metropolitan areas voted heavily against the Byrd candidates. Harry Byrd...
...civil war 13 months ago, the OAS troop contingent last week was down to 6,300 from the U.S., 1,150 troops from Brazil, and token forces from Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. At week's end two Navy landing craft were on their way from Norfolk, Va., to begin the evacuation...
Playboys & Flyboys. Though it is only 17 months old, EJA counts 87 customers, and revenues are running at a yearly rate of almost $3,000,000. The company's first client, Norfolk and Western Railroad, last week signed a new contract calling for 235,000 miles on EJA's 16 six-seat Lear jets and three French-built, ten-passenger Falcons. Among other clients are Xerox, Mead Johnson, IBM, General Electric, White Motor Corp., Cincinnati Milling Machine and HMH Publishing Co., whose Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner flies out to give campus lectures on the philosophy of sex, always...
...Wayne Woodlief, a Nieman Fellow concluding a year at Harvard, is a general assignment reporter for the Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Star. His assignments reporter for the Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Star. His assignments have included race relations and politics. He has followed the Virginia senatorial campaign through newspapers from his state and correspondence with politicians...
...Sixty-three seemed the year of lost hope for Virginia liberals. Gov. Harrison and Lt. Gov. Godwin had defeated a liberal ticket in 1961. The "Young Turks"--Boothe of Alexandria, Toy Savage of Norfolk and others--who had fought the Byrd Organization's segregation and tight budget policies during the '50s--were beaten and tired and did not run for the state legislature in '63. The conservatives who did run and were elected ignored a state constitutional mandate to reapportion the legislature...