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...Gene" had wangled himself back into the governorship by winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary was no puzzle to Georgians-even though his principal opponent, James V. Carmichael, had polled 314,421 popular votes to Gene's 305,777. The "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" had just exploited Georgia's county unit system of counting votes...
Under the unit system, Fulton County (where Carmichael beat Talmadge by 23,836) got six electoral votes for its 92,500 voters. Echols County got two for its 619 voters. Thus, one Echols vote had the electoral power of 150 Fulton votes in last week's election. Not one of Georgia's 159 counties is so humble as to have less than two electoral votes...
...majority increased with every fresh report. A few thousand men, 12,000 by four in the afternoon, 18,000 by nightfall. Plainly, the people of Georgia wanted James Carmichael as their next governor, to replace Ellis Arnall who by law could not succeed himself. One hundred thousand Negroes, voting in a Democratic primary for the first time in their lives, were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers...
...plain, white clapboard rectangle with a steeple and stained-glass windows. He might have difficulty recognizing some of the 3,616 churches now on postwar planning boards. Among the more outlandish designs, most of them reported in this month's Architectural Record: ¶A community church in Carmichael, Calif., which will include a badminton court, tennis court and swimming pool, for the strengthening and immersing of the congregation...
...three universities' presidents, Leonard Carmichael of Tufts, Daniel L. Marsh of B.U., and President Conant, will gave the introductory speeches leading up to the main address by Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General of the Army. Brigadier General William J. Keville, Adjutant General of Massachusetts, will present the traditional greetings from the Governor...