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...winning margin came from Baltimore's Jewish and Negro areas. The city's Fifth District, home of 80% of Baltimore's 90,000 Jews, gave Brewster 39,000 votes, Wallace 9,000. The lopsided results were much the same in black Baltimore. In 17 Negro precincts, Wallace got not a single ballot. Eighty-seven Negro boxes gave the Alabamian fewer than six votes per precinct against a total of 18,765 for Brewster...
...People. Thwarted and embittered, Arnulfo Arias immediately cried theft, claimed that the government had stolen the victory. His supporters charged that in several rural precincts, Arias ballots failed to arrive in time for anyone to vote for him. In Chiriqui province, a man wearing the uniform of Panama's National Guard reportedly scared away Indian voters with pistol shots in the air. Arias' lawyers are also investigating the voting in two provinces where government figures are said to show that Arias failed to win a single precinct...
Landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport the next afternoon, Johnson found Dick Daley waiting for him, along with Illinois' Governor Otto Kerner, Democratic National Committeeman Jake Arvey, dozens of Democratic precinct workers - and little Cathy Baker. Daley and his boys were not about to let some kid beat them to the President. When Johnson stepped down from the plane, Daley's Democrats rumbled past Cathy, thundered eagerly up to offer Johnson their plump palms. The President shook hands with most of them, finally scooped up Cathy, collected a kiss for preventing the railroad strike...
...TEXAS. G.O.P. organizations are well established down to the precinct level in places like Harris and Dallas counties. Ten Republican field men operate out of Austin, each covering a score or more of Texas' 254 counties. This year, for the first time in history, Republicans will contest every one of the state's 23 house seats, and the May 2 G.O.P. primary may produce an attractive senatorial candidate in Houston's George Bush, son of Connecticut's former Senator Prescott Bush, to run against liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. The Democrats are beginning to react. In Dallas...
...most from a white revolt; he is even on record against the civil rights bill. But any Republican stands to gain. Whether the Presidential candidate does so or not depends less on his statements and the Republican platform than on the politicians and professional bigots on the ward and precinct level--like the candidates for Milwaukee County supervisor. There they can appeal to the fears and fears and prejudices that are almost never discussed in national and state campaigns...