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Thus, only Florida and California hold a chance for an upset-and they, not much. Florida's popular Governor LeRoy Collins leans toward Stevenson, and the state's anti-Collins faction is led by ex-Governor Fuller Warren, a hater of Estes Kefauver from the days of the Kefauver investigating committee. Kefauver has kept up his Miami contacts, and some observers believe he can still carry that city; elsewhere in Florida his star has dimmed. In California, Stevenson has already lined up nearly all Democratic leaders, including most of those who supported Kefauver...
...Although he has not publicly said so. he would like another term. The state Supreme Court will have to rule on his eligibility to succeed himself. (The issue: Will his two years count as a term?) If he clears that hurdle, he may face formidable opposition next year from ex-Governor Fuller Warren, a highly popular figure whose supporters stretch from the cracker counties of the north to the dog-track fraternity of Miami...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, son of matchless Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, took the wrappings...
...South, politicians fulminated against the Supreme Court and made plans to circumvent its rulings. Among the first and loudest in the field of protest were Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin and ex-Governor Herman Talmadge. Cried Griffin: "Comingling of the races in Georgia state parks and recreation areas will not be permitted or tolerated ... I can make the clear declaration that the state will get out of the park business before allowing a breakdown in segregation in the intimacy of the playground." Said Talmadge: "I think the court of last resort is the people, and if the people...
Brazil's presidential race was dramatically close, and the vote-counting was dramatically slow. This week, with more than two-thirds of an estimated 10 million paper ballots tallied, the apparent winner was sometime Physician Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, grandson of a Silesian immigrant, ex-governor of Minas Gerais State, candidate of a patchwork left and center coalition. Middle-Roader Kubitschek ran with Communist endorsement, which, in public, he neither accepted nor rejected. His slogan: "Power, Transportation and Food." Brazil can use more of all three...