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Because the state constitution forbids them to succeed themselves. South Carolina's Governors usually spend the latter part of their four-year term looking around for a new job. Embarking on just such a search in 1944, Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, then 47. combined youthful vigor and a slashing attack to unseat Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, a scarred old veteran who broke all existing records for Senate longevity.-This year, at 65 a veteran of more than 17 years in the Senate, Olin Johnston knew how Cotton Ed must have felt. Opposing him in the state's Democratic...
Last week Johnston soundly thrashed his youthful rival in the primary, winning 65% of the 300,000 votes cast and all but one of the state's 46 counties. "I thought." said a crestfallen Rollings after walking alone through the night to concede personally to Johnston, "that I'd run you a better race...
Like Measles. Both Rollings and Johnston supported Kennedy in 1960, and both are avowed segregationists. But their political similarities end there. Rollings pledged during his campaign to adopt a conservative approach that would have put him at odds with Kennedy on various issues; he flayed Johnston for submitting to "the hierarchy of the northern labor bosses." charged him with supporting "radical leftwing" elements. Ignoring most of Rollings' charges. Johnston stressed his record in helping labor and agriculture, promised to back such Kennedy programs as medical care for the" aged under social security, took a generally liberal line on everything...
Atomic Energy Commission scientists last week were "keyed up and ready" to take the U.S. into a new high level of nuclear testing. First shot on the agenda: a giant skyrocket exploding not more than 60 miles above Johnston Island, its sub-megaton flash visible in Hawaii 700 miles away, its power sending waves of electrical disturbance around the earth to be picked up by sensitive instruments...
...orbit also carry equipment to observe the experiments, and foreign scientists are preparing for their own test watch. Before each explosion, the AEC has promised, all the world's laboratories will get advance word of when to watch for electrical disturbances, spreading like gigantic ripples from far-off Johnston Island...