Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, the complex system was devised by Ky himself last spring when he expected to be the presidential candidate. But the voters were not amenable. Ky personally backed eleven slates, and all but one of them lost. Thieu promoted two slates, and both lost. Huong promoted two; both lost. Runner-Up Dzu backed five; all lost. Indeed, the six triumphant slates look something like a political scientist's dream of incipient democracy come true: two are likely to support the Thieu government, two are in stout opposition, and two are independent...
...word to vote for Suu. As a result, Suu not only carried Hué but nearby Danang and Thua Thien province as well. Huong, as expected, carried his old mayoralty of Saigon. Peace Candidate Dzu won five provinces, all longtime, hard-core bases for Viet Cong activity; he was runner-up to Thieu in 26 provinces honeycombed with Viet Cong cadres. Inevitably, the suspicion arose that the Viet Cong had quietly passed the word to voters to support Dzu. The accusation drew from Dzu an angry but logical rejoinder: Thieu, after all, beat him in 26 V.C.-infested provinces...
...Bardenberg, Germany. By then the entrepreneurs had run short of ideas, so the liveliest moments came with the so-called "fruit bowl" game, in which contestants tried to break balloons by rocking up and down in an animal cutout. The German team won the $12,150 grand prize. Runner-up France received a 200-pound salami, compliments of the Bardenberg sausage industry...
...exception is the Dodge Charger, which has junked its fastback styling and taken on a pair of swept-back wings joining the roof to the rear deck. Plymouth will compete with the Tempest Le Mans and the Mercury Montego by offering a hopped-up Belvedere called the Road Runner. In the big-car field, Cadillac now boasts the largest engine in the industry, though its exterior remains virtually unchanged...
Delta Gains. In the campaign for Lieutenant Governor, voting was so close between Governor Paul Johnson, 51 (who ran for the No. 2 spot because state law prevents him from succeeding himself), and State Representative Roy Black, 52, that a recount appeared necessary for the runoff against Front Runner Attorney Charley Sullivan, 42. Byron De La Beckwith, still under indictment after two mistrials for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, netted only 34,000 votes. In all, 670,000 of the state's 800,000 eligible voters went to the polls, including nearly...