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...geographic ties to the Old Confederacy; though it is more Western in the look of the land and its yield, the state has never embraced the West's expansionist, assimilative outlook. Instead, in the eyes of the world it seemed aimlessly insular, obdurately independent-and comically backward. As then-Governor Charles Brough boasted 50 years ago: "You could build a wall around the state of Arkansas and its people would be self-sufficient...
...financed. When the center was proposed a decade ago, university spokesmen told the legislature they did not want it unless both building and operating costs could be separately financed and guaranteed. It must not, they insisted, be dependent on the legislature's appropriation whims. Then-Governor Okey L. Patteson pushed through a penny-a-bottle "pop tax." Every man, woman and child in the state who has gulped down a soft drink since July 1951 has put up 1? for the center. The tax has yielded $25 million of the $30 million that the center has cost thus...
Brack Lee's cranky passion for cutting budgets and taxes makes him a hero to some Utahans, a crackpot to others. Back in 1956, top Utah Republicans decided that then-Governor Lee was a "disruptive influence" in the party, wrecked his hopes for a third term. Lee took revenge in 1958 by running for the U.S. Senate as an independent, gathering so many normally Republican votes that able Republican Arthur V. Watkins lost his Senate seat to Democrat Frank Moss. With the state's Republican organization unforgivingly angry at him, Lee seemed politically dead-until...
...Waggoner estate, a land, cattle and oil empire sprawling over six Texas counties. Turning down inviting offers-among them the $75,000-a-year presidency of the American Petroleum Institute- he stuck with the estate, expanding it steadily. In late 1952, on the advice of Texas' then-Governor Allan Shivers, Dwight Eisenhower nominated Anderson as Navy Secretary. Never before aboard an ocean-going vessel, Anderson navigated the Navy expertly from his swivel chair. Item: with rare courage he reversed the decision of senior Navy brass, recommended the promotion of passed-over Captain Hyman G. Rickover, able "father...
North Carolina's Senator W. Kerr (pronounced car) Scott, 60, is a Democrat of the hardfisted, harsh-tongued, Harry Truman school (in 1951, then-Governor Scott announced that his three top choices for President were "Harry S. Truman, Harry Truman and Truman"). As such, he never much cottoned to the low-key, upper-level sort of Democratic leadership typified by Adlai Stevenson. And when Republican Dwight Eisenhower this year came within 15,487 votes of carrying Democratic North Carolina, Kerr Scott thought he knew...