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...sound political reckoning, be Governor of his sprawling, complex state. His Pensacola hometown is considered something of a no-man's land far from the madding Democratic vote centers of Southern Florida. His opponents in last year's Democratic primaries were State Senate President John Mathews, Attorney General Earl Faircloth and Dade County Mayor Chuck Hall, three of the best-known men in the state. In a high-rolling state that likes politicos with pizazz, Askew is a nonsmoking teetotaler who devotes most of his spare time to Presbyterian Church activities. Further, he ran on a platform of substantial...
...Collins also suffered through an election-night cliffhanger in his bid for the Democratic nomination to the Senate seat that George Smathers is vacating this year. An urbane lawyer and former director of the President's Com munity Relations Service, Collins, 59, narrowly defeated Florida Attorney General Earl Faircloth, who ran as a "conservative alternative" and forced Collins into last week's runoff election...
Having beaten Faircloth by only 3,000 votes, Collins will be forced to forsake some of his courtly brand of gentle persuasion in the race against Republican Congressman Ed Gurney, who will inherit much of Faircloth's conservative Democratic support. ¶For the first time in Kentucky's history, voters nominated a woman for the U.S. Senate. By nearly 35,000 votes, Katherine Peden, 42, a former state commerce commissioner and the only woman member of the President's riots commission, defeated her closest opponent in a field of twelve candidates to win the Democratic nomination...
...Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, 59, his expected senatorial nomination. While the downpour (2.27 in. in Miami) in the state's populous southern tip kept many of Collins' supporters home, good weather in the rest of the state did nothing to hinder his conservative opponent, Attorney General Earl Faircloth, 47. Collins missed a majority by a mere...
...Faircloth made a thinly veiled appeal to racism, chiding Collins for his role in bridging the races as L.B.J.'s former director of the Community Relations Service. "This isn't the same Collins who was Governor," he said, "and he helped to bring on the tragic lawlessness of today." Faircloth attacked the federal open-housing bill, praised Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's "maim or cripple" order for looters, and denounced the Administration for "coddling criminals and rioters...