Nation: New Note in Dixie

Way, way down in the land of cotton, two attractive Governors last week delivered their inaugural addresses and, in a pleasant departure from the past, they weren't just whistling Dixie.

"Fact of the Land." For South Carolina's Donald S. Russell, 56, the tone had been set by outgoing Governor Ernest F. Hollings. Said Rollings in his farewell appearance before the state legislature: "We have all argued that the Supreme Court [desegregation] decision of 1954 is not the law of the land. But everyone must agree that it is the fact of the land . . . If and when every legal remedy...

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