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...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 as "Hanoi's pinup...
...meaning Negroes), intellectuals and Communists. With bantam-cock posture and frequent billingsgate phrases, he portentously appeals to patriotism, law and order, individual liberty, states' rights and the safety of the past. He is a pugnacious orator-a kind of ham-hock Goldwater-and one of the most effective stump speakers of the 1968 campaign...
...their neighbor to the north pays to Europe and Asia, South American leaders are particularly concerned in an election year. Latin ambassadors in Washington have been bombarded with urgent inquiries from home about the presidential candidates' views on hemispheric issues, and even the most casual speech from the stump is scrutinized for hints of policy changes...
...this year are suffering tortures that would have given Martha Washington the vapors. Ethel Kennedy, three months pregnant, takes a fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
...Oregon line, defending his past failure to support fellow Republicans Reagan, Nixon and George Murphy, and hammering so hard for law and order that, as one critic put it, "he makes Barry Goldwater sound like one of the charter members of the A.D.A." No match for Rafferty on the stump, the Senator so far has avoided a direct confrontation. His tactics appear to be paying off. Kuchel has recovered from an early slump in the polls, and by last week seemed headed for another victory in June...