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Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, just nominated (and thus elected) for his third term, had no such qualms. "Compliance," sneered Faubus, "cannot be obtained by invoking the sacred name of the Constitution, or by the use of the once-magic name of Eisenhower." At week's end he called a special session of the Arkansas legislature, asked it to pass a new set of anti-integration laws-in Southern anticipation of a final Supreme Court order to reintegrate Central High...
...ultimate weapon: a battered copy of the Southern Manifesto. Gore's refusal to join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with...
Plenty of Omens. The two-years-for-good-measure reflected the mood of the South last week: the triumphant primary victory of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Aug. 11) boosted segregationist hopes that the Federal Government can successfully be defied. Integration leaders and law-abiding moderates look gloomily toward the beginning of the fifth school year after the Supreme Court decision. The Deep South will generally continue to bar all Negroes; the border states give little promise of progress, plenty of omens of trouble...
Yankee Go Home. Orval Faubus' two opponents had tried first to run against the third-term issue, found that voters had accepted the calculated Faubus definition of the campaign: show the "outsiders," including President Eisenhower and "the Yankee press," that Arkansas does not want integrated schools. With the courage to win or lose on horse sense, Chancery Judge Lee Ward of Paragould (pop. 10,000) grimly contrasted his own law-and-order segregationism with the "bullet and bayonet approach" taken by Faubus. "Orval Faubus stands today on the brink of treason," said he in an election eve TV speech...
...Pretty Good Governor." In Washington, Democrats, with one strike against them because they voted to water down the Administration's civil rights bill last year, were stunned into temporary silence by the realization that they would go into the fall and the 1960 campaigns with Orval Faubus around their necks. Finally, Democratic Chairman Paul Butler found his voice to deliver an odd defense of Faubus: "His election was not determined on the question of segregation as opposed to integration. The issue was largely on the use of troops in Little Rock. Further, without endorsing his action at all-actually...