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...From Byron Center to Kent City, Saranac to Rockford, the voters seemed overwhelmingly unhappy. "It's nothing but taxes, taxes, taxes," growled a Cedar Springs man. "Negroes don't want equality," said a Kent City nurse. "They want superiority." "People want the hell out of that war," declared a Rockford constituent. "When I see L.B.J. on TV," groaned a Caledonia woman, "I almost break my tube-there's no sincerity there...
Scant days remained before his concert at the St.-Tropez Festival, and Pianist Byron Janis, 39, was staring straight into the jaws of une véritable débâcle. His new white dinner jacket, a double-breasted poem in paper limned especially for him by Haute Couturier Pierre Cardin, had proved a grabber in the armpits. "Rush me another," pled the pianist. "I have to move my arms...
...campaign for Lieutenant Governor, voting was so close between Governor Paul Johnson, 51 (who ran for the No. 2 spot because state law prevents him from succeeding himself), and State Representative Roy Black, 52, that a recount appeared necessary for the runoff against Front Runner Attorney Charley Sullivan, 42. Byron De La Beckwith, still under indictment after two mistrials for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, netted only 34,000 votes. In all, 670,000 of the state's 800,000 eligible voters went to the polls, including nearly 70% of the 194,000 registered Negroes...
...election. Of the remaining five, two are not contenders but will take considerable votes from the others. One of the two is Waller, who has attacked both civil rights "rabble-rousers" and the "hooded cowards" of the Ku Klux Klan. Waller has twice tried in vain to convict Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evans. His votes will be Winter's in the likely runoff three weeks from today...
...Winter in an Aug. 29 run-off between the top two vote getters. Governor Paul Johnson, prevented by the state constitution from succeeding himself, finds himself instead in the odd position of campaigning for the lieutenant-governorship, a job he held under Barnett. Among Johnson's five opponents: Byron De La Beckwith, under indictment for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers...