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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...
Among U.S. allies, reactions ranged from cheers to tears. The British Commonwealth's two Harolds-Britain's Prime Minister Wilson and Australia's Prime Minister Holt-found themselves at opposite ends of the spectrum. Wilson, harried by a flatulent left wing that even deplores Washington's support of the pound sterling, declared that "we must dissociate ourselves from the bombings" but stoutly reiterated his fundamental support for U.S. war aims...
...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...