Word: gov
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BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 3-Police arrested almost 800 University students here today, as Gov. Brown cracked down on the largest incident in the continuing protests which have plagued the Berkeley Campus all semester...
...election night Charles Holley, Florida's Republican candidate for Gov ernor, sent word to Democrat W. (for Willie) Haydon Burns. "It looks like you've won,": he said. Replied Winner Burns: "That's the first accurate statement he made during this campaign." Taking his place among the South's Governors, Burns, 52, a six-term may or of Jacksonville, will almost certainly prove to be one of the most colorful. A native Kentuckian, he is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, and known as "Slick" because of his penchant for flashy clothes. Running for the nomination...
...unofficial recanvass of votes in the Massachusetts governor's race last night apparently ruled out a recount requested a few hours earlier by Lt. Gov. Francis X. Bellotti...
...panoply of problems. De Gaulle's hints at a further French de-emphasis of NATO and the uncertainty over Britain's defense posture point up the need for major repairs on the Atlantic Alliance. Johnson's task is complicated by the shaky underpinnings of so many gov ernments. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has a fragile five-vote majority in Parliament, which began its new session as the U.S. was voting. Wilson is expected in Washington next month, but one of his first acts was to propose the nationalization of steel, and if he keeps pushing...
Scott himself was elected to the Senate in 1958 in an upset victory over former Gov. George M. Leader (who ran Musmanno's unsuccessful primary campaign this year). During six months in the Senate, the Philadelphia has compiled a fairly liberal voting record (he got a 68 per cent rating from the ADA this year, and somewhat less from the Americans for Constitutional Action), with strong support for civil rights and federal spending programs. He has been responsible for measures designed to improve the lot of the state's coal industries and their employees, and in 1962 persuaded President Kennedy...