Word: richmond
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Counter-Bloc. That was true enough. Yet King had himself helped solidify the white vote by stumping the state to rally Negro support for State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a fairly recent convert to racial moderation, who had gone all out for the Negro vote. As expected, the great majority of Negroes cast their ballots for Flowers. But the specter of a black-bloc vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes...
...Grow with Flowers." George figured that Alabamians would probably split their votes among the nine other Democratic contestants, giving Lurleen at best a plurality, thus forcing her into a runoff with the second-place candidate. He assumed that her opponent would be State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, 47, who alone among the candidates had made a vigorous bid for the state's swelling Negro vote. "I do not believe that the Negro is inferior," Flowers told eager Negro audiences. "I am a man of the law and, like it or not, I am going to follow the law. Every...
DAVID JAY ARLUK Richmond Hill...
Both beat the record of 33.47 set last year by Dan Richmond, now a senior. Third over the line was senior Mark Alper, with a time...
...Francisco Mayor George Christopher are staging a rerun of the Goldwater-Rockefeller contest, while Governor Pat Brown has been challenged in the Democratic primary by the hero of the casual bigots, Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles. In Alabama, Lurleen Wallace is facing an increasingly liberal Attorney-General Richmond Flowers. In contrast, it is impossible to find such differences between the two Democrat Senatorial candidates in Michigan, former (1949-1960) Governor G. Mennen Williams and Detroit's Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh...