Word: richmond
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Adlai & Mother. All through the hot day the train clacked through the almond groves and peach orchards of the Central Valley, and Kennedy pulled the stops, one by one. In Richmond, introducing his sister, Pat Lawford, it was American motherhood ("My wife is home, and we are having a baby-a boy-in November"). A reference to Adlai Stevenson drew loud cheers in Richmond, deep in Stevenson heartland. There were the in evitable home-grown beauties bearing gifts: olives and peaches in Red Bluff, a jug of water in Dunsmuir, a camellia plant in Sacramento (earlier in the week there...
Some papers simply thought that Jack Kennedy was getting a bum religious rap. Wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Senator Kennedy seems to us to have demonstrated admirable independence on this issue, since he has voted at least twice contrary to what we believe to be the position of his church. He voted against the use of public funds for parochial schools and against sending an ambassador from the U.S. to the Vatican." Some papers seemed to think that the whole religion issue was a Republican plot. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Regardless of how it has been raised, religion...
Throughout the South last week, only a handful of Negroes broke the prevailing barriers, but they did so without disturbance. In Little Rock, twelve Negro students peacefully entered Central and Hall High Schools. In Richmond, two Negro girls entered Chandler Junior High School -first integration in the Confederacy's onetime capital. In Houston, the nation's biggest segregated school district, six-year-old Tyronne Day was the first Negro to enter a white school. Houston could hardly believe how easy it was. "This is a real achievement," said School Superintendent John W. McFarland. "I don't believe...
...Norfolk, the present often meets the past with a loud clang. Daily, the old Southern attitudes clash with the bustle of a boom town. Once just a sleazy, rollicking seaport, Norfolk is now bigger and far busier than Virginia's capital city of Richmond. The U.S. Navy is the most important fact in Norfolk's life (indeed, the U.S. Government provides 40% of Norfolk's payroll)-but many of the city's citizens have never quite got over the feeling that for years prompted them to post "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed" signs. Part of downtown...
...when Nixon made a quick foray into North Carolina, he was stirred by the enthusiastic reception he got (see Republicans). Kennedy's Roman Catholicism was obviously hurting him in Baptist country. And Johnson was not proving to be the Southern darling everyone was led to believe. Wrote Richmond News Leader Editor James Kilpatrick fortnight...