Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
That Georges is still on the road at all is something of a surprise. He was the campaign manager for De Gaulle's re-election last December, in which De Gaulle was forced into a humiliating runoff, and even then managed only 55% of the vote against Socialist François Mitterrand. Afterward, De Gaulle brought back into his Cabinet his first Premier, Michel Debré, a hint to some that Pompidou was on the way down. Not so. As Finance Minister, Debre has had to take orders from Pompidou-and take the blame for the government...
Amerson, 32, a onetime Army paratrooper and father of two, was forced into last week's runoff for Macon County sheriff when neither he nor white Incumbent Harvey Sadler won a majority in Alabama's May 3 Democratic primary. The county has the highest proportion of Negroes (84%) of any in the U.S., and Negroes hold a 7,000 to 2,000 voter registration advantage. Amerson's showdown victory was still a considerable accomplishment. Few men in the rural South are more powerful than the local sheriff, and the office is the most sacrosanct of white preserves...
...Alabama primary, Clark got a second chance to keep his job when Dallas County's segregation-minded Democratic executive committee threw out six ballot boxes for "irregularities." The objective was to deny moderate Wilson Baker, Selma's former Public Safety Director, a majority and force a runoff. The discarded boxes, all from Negro neighborhoods, gave Baker 1,412 votes, Clark...
Result: Baker wins, 8,994 to 7,537. No runoff necessary...