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PRESS LORD ROY THOMSON. THE ST. PETERSBURG "TIMES" is ONE OF FEW U.S. NON-CHAIN NEWSPAPERS OWNED BY A WRITING EDITOR WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO MY EXECUTORS TO KEEP IT THAT...
...more electoral votes. Moreover, the electoral power is the same whether the vote is light or heavy; in 1960 the eleven states of the old Confederacy, where few Negroes are enfranchised, cast only 14% of the popular vote but 24% of the electoral vote. Furthermore, the electoral college cannot keep pace with the nation's population shifts. The 1950 census determined each state's electoral total for 1960. Had the 1960 census figures been used, Richard Nixon would have won ten additional electoral votes. Finally, although custom is strong, only a few states have laws that bind...
...point where it will, regardless of the orders of the court, be unable to operate the schools," Rosenberg said. He has asked the three judge commission now deciding whether to maintain Judge Wright's restraining order to nullify the flood of legislation against the actions of the board or keep the schools segregated until the litigation is completed...
Although Louisiana is grasping at legal straws in its attempt to interpose state sovereignty between local and national authority it can keep the situation alive by refusing to grant funds. However, such action can only lead to a closing of the public schools and it is doubtful whether the people of the city would permit this to continue, any more than they have in Arkansas where Faubus has been forced to begin token integration...
...likely, it is more than likely, that this was the same old L.B.J. who would do anything to get and keep power. But it is possible, it is just barely possible, that freed from the Texas constituents that had molded him for thirty years, Johnson had broken loose...