Word: segregationist
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...Democratic gubernatorial primary, Jim Johnson's wife Virginia, also a segregationist ("Aren't we all?"), squeezed toward a runoff with the favored candidate, State Representative Marion Crank. Crank, whose campaign is well fueled by utility interests (he is dubbed "the Natural Gas Candidate"), is expected to win the runoff and then lose to Rockefeller, since Arkansas traditionally gives its Governors a second two-year term...
...Commitment. Young and the league's leaders, straining to meet all but the farthest-out extremists halfway, zeroed in on two grievous weaknesses that beset black moderates: the lack of involvement in the slums by middle-class Negroes and deep-seated white racism. To Young, Alabama's Segregationist George Wallace "is as American as cherry pie." Replied Merchant Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Dallas Nieman-Marcus store: "We must have a deep commitment by a vast majority of the white citizens of this country that this is their problem." And when twoscore ghetto youngsters invaded a league...
Such forces are at work even in the rather unusual case of Georgia's Democratic delegation, which is handpicked by Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox. Maddox cannot ignore the realities of political balance, and Georgia delegates aim to keep open minds. Or so insists Lawyer Irving Kaler, a Jewish liberal delegate who rebuilt the party's Atlanta machinery. "The convention atmosphere itself encourages you to consider very carefully," says Kaler, "You don't operate in a vacuum. Every instrument of public opinion is focused on you. If you wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before...
...trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. Now Johnson's wife Virginia is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Together they stump the state, espousing George Wallace's values and lambasting Fulbright...
...light of the spirit of the declaration, there was some surprise that the messengers elected a conservative as incoming president. He is Dr. W. A. Criswell, 60, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation. Although long regarded as a segregationist by other Baptist leaders, Criswell insisted that his 15,000-member congregation includes three Negroes. There is no disputing, however, the conservatism of his theology. Criswell is strongly opposed to the teaching of evolution in public schools, believes that Genesis provides a literally accurate account of the world's beginning...