Word: governorship
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...reason to be happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely outcome is that the nod will go to Maddox, even though Callaway outpolled him on Election Day by 3,538 votes...
When all the court hassles and confusions are over, the new governor will take office with questionable authority and prestige. Sanders, on the other hand, will leave the governorship with his reputation at a personal high. He has come to represent a figure of unity amid the turmoil. A governor in Georgia cannot succeed himself, but Sanders has promised to stay in office until the election is decided...
...amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution, it is up to the state legislature to award the governorship to one of the two top candidates. There was little doubt that the Democratic majority of legislators would pick Lester Maddox, the onetime restaurateur who in 1964 dispensed ax handles to whites rather than serve chicken legs to Negroes...
While campaigning for the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan promised to do something about radical student activities at the University of California's Berkeley campus. Liberal fears of an attack on academic freedom grew after Reagan was elected, and The New Republic printed a pithy addendum to two articles on university crackdowns in Argentina and Rhodesia that asked: "Could it happen here...
...materialize as much as many people had anticipated. American citizens, when the chips are down, prefer to vote their intelligence and good sense rather than their prejudices." In many races, in fact, there was something of a Negro "frontlash." Winthrop Rockefeller became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat Mahoney on the votes of poor Negroes, upper-income Jews...