In export to LaTeX/PDF, has anyone had success in suppressing page
numbering on the cover page and the Table of Contents, such that the first
text section appears as Page 1?

I tried adding this at the beginning of my document, but it had no effect:

#+LATEX_CMD: \cleardoublepage
#+LATEX_CMD: \pagestyle{headings}
#+LATEX_CMD: \setcounter{page}{1}
#+LATEX_CMD: \pagenumbering{arabic}