Arkansas: Can Win Win?

If Democrat Orval Faubus had his way, he'd be Governor of Arkansas until the Ozarks turn into molehills. This year he set out after his sixth straight two-year term, certain that winning would be as easy as eating grits with a tablespoon. He was in for a surprise.

Running against Faubus is Republican Winthrop (or, as he now bills himself, "Win") Rockefeller, 52, fourth of the five Rockefeller brothers, who moved eleven years ago from New York to the 34,000-acre Winrock Farms, 65 miles from Little Rock.

In 1955 Faubus, figuring a Rockefeller would be quite an attraction for new business, picked...

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