Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have put their bets on Houston Lawyer Thad Hutcheson, 41, a political newcomer who has Ike's personal endorsement in a state that has twice gone heavily for Eisenhower. To head him off, the Democrats have tried for weeks to get a bill through the legislature requiring a runoff between the two top candidates if neither gets a majority. Last week the bill failed, and Republicans were figuring hopefully that the heavy Democratic vote might be so thinly spread among the twoscore Democratic candidates that Republican Hutcheson could skip through with a small plurality. Moreover, while Hutcheson...
After a Saturday morning recount, the Adams House Committee discovered that Lawrence H. Johnson had not won, as they had announced, but was instead tied with Terence S. Turnor. A runoff election will be held tomorrow...
...South-is to work for racial peace and quiet. Unlike many of his political predecessors, he refuses to exploit segregation as a political issue. Of five candidates for governor in the 1955 primary, only Coleman pointedly refused to indorse the racist White Citizens' Councils; he won in the runoff election by a record 48,000 votes, the first governor in 32 years elected in his first try. He has since firmly refused to make speeches on the segregation issue, either inside or outside Mississippi. And no scholar is quicker to remind the South that during Reconstruction the Supreme Court...
Humbling Vote. When the votes were counted, no one had won a majority- thus requiring this week's runoff-but several had been humbled. The Communists, who before Hungary could count on one vote in every four in France, had dropped with an embarrassing thump from 130,000 votes to a modest 60,000. Pierre Mendès-France, who had staked his struggle to "revitalize and rejuvenate" the Radicals on the outcome, suffered a crushing defeat...
...turnout indicated that few people had followed Poujade's instructions to boycott the election. His pride stung, Poujade called a press conference to announce (as his wife plac idly nursed their new six-weeks-old daughter) that he was taking the unusual step of filing for the runoff when he had not even been a candidate in the first election. He flooded the district with 800,000 pamphlets, held a mammoth rally in Paris' biggest arena, charged the Mollet government with "black cowardice" in its concessions to the Algerian Moslems. "Who among you hasn't wished that...