Word: holte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson, an out-and-out segregationist ("I don't shake hands with niggers"), very much notice when he entered the campaign last spring. Many even discounted his chances after he ran first in the July 26 primary, expecting most Democrats to rally in the runoff behind J. Frank Holt, 55, an easygoing moderate and the candidate of the Arkansas machine headed by outgoing Governor Orval Faubus...
None of the seven Democratic contenders came even close to winning a majority. The two top vote getters, former State Supreme Court Justices Jim Johnson, 41, and J. Frank Holt, 55, were forced into a runoff, to be held next week, that promises further internecine bloodletting...
...Holt, a personable but bland moderate backed by the Faubus organization, has run a lackluster campaign, lauding the state's progress under the Governor and invoking his own record as a former county prosecutor and state attorney general. Apart from a pledge of $500-a-year raises for teachers and a new traffic-safety program, he has offered little in the way of change...
Wallabies & Fossickers. In conducting the continent's most accurate head count since Phillip's day, Prime Minister Harold Holt sent 18,500 census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally...
...Harold Holt, on his first Washington visit since taking office, had no such problem. Reflecting Australia's awareness of its own stake in Viet Nam in his arrival address, he graciously assured his smiling host: "In the lonelier and perhaps even more disheartening moments which come to any national leader, I hope there will be a corner of your mind and heart which takes cheer from the fact that you have an admiring friend, a staunch friend, that will be all the way with L.B.J...