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...politics-has dominated Texas for generations. But if the state lacks a genuine two-party system, it does have a highly active two-party party. Next year, in the vacuum that Connally will leave, liberal Democrats led by the Governor's bitter enemy, Populist-minded Senator Ralph Yarborough, have hopes of breaking the conservative hegemony in Austin. Lamented one Connally partisan: "We just don't have anybody who can keep the thing together...
...often takes some probing to bring the anxieties up. In Texas, where Republican Senator John Tower and Democrat Ralph Yarborough were both touring, Houstonians seemed lore interested in the conditions of their drought-seared lawns than in the fate of the Middle East. In Amarillo, at the opposite end of the state, people were fretting over the closedown of a SAC base, not because the move involves any highfalutin' global implications but because it will cost the community $30 million a year in local income...
Down on Dallas. Despite the even tone of the narrative, Manchester manages to say enough to stir up several storms. He contends that Kennedy went to Texas to patch up a quarrel between the followers of conservative Governor John Connally Jr., and those of liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough. If there is a villain (other than Oswald) in the Manchester piece, it is Connally, who-says Manchester-wanted to use the presidential visit to serve his own political ends. Calling a press conference, Connally insisted that Kennedy came to Texas to mend his own political fortunes, not to resolve a local...
Strengthened politically by what his detractors refer to as "the Bullet"-the shot that wounded Connally as he accompanied President Kennedy on the fatal motorcade in Dallas-the Gover nor has systematically squeezed liberals out of what few party posts they enjoyed. To U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the liberals' Washington oracle, Connally is "the worst, most vindictive, most reactionary Governor in Texas history...
...Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida's 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. "hemi-head" engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough's Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h...