Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the votes were tallied, even the hopeful Republicans were surprised. They elected a city councilman in Columbus, a total of seven aldermen in four other towns. More important, they elected two mayors-the first ever in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg, Lawyer Paul Grady, 41, who lost a runoff election for mayor as a Democrat in 1961, decided he'd rather switch before fighting again, did much better as a Republican. Though Hattiesburg is the Governor's home town, Grady defeated Democratic Incumbent Claude Pittman Jr. 2,429 to 1,827. In Columbus, another Democrat-turned-Republican, City Councilman...
Nora M. Ronhovde '66 won the presidency of RGA in a runoff yesterday with Beverley Winikoff '66, it was announced last night...
...runoff was conducted because none of the four candidates vying for the presidency won a majority of votes in the election last week...
...across the Northern California coast, dropping its moisture when forced to climb over the mountains. Heavy rain fell, in some places 35 inches. Eastward all the way to Idaho, the high mountains got the worst drenching; the warm rain melted accumulated snow, adding another ten inches to the foaming runoff. Before the ill wind from Hawaii stopped blowing, it had started disastrous floods that cost nearly 50 lives and almost a billion dollars in damage...
...winner of the Bush-Cox runoff will face Senator Ralph Yarborough, who beat Radio Station Owner-Announcer Gordon McLendon, 43, after a cactus-nasty campaign in the Democratic primary. McLendon, who bills himself on-air as "the Old Scotchman," made shameless use of his radio outlets to boost his own candidacy, rattled on for months before the primary about the liberal tendencies of "Smilin' Ralph". The vote: Yarborough 903,211, against 671,806 for the Old Scotchman...