Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will face each other in a Jan. 11 runoff primary, which Morrison has a chance of winning. If he does, and goes on to be elected Governor, it will be a tribute to persistence. Widower Morrison, 51, a Catholic, has tried twice before for Governor. In 1956, he was walloped by Ol' Earl Long. In 1959, he led the field by 65,000 votes in the first primary, only to be drowned out in the runoff by guitar-twanging Songwriter Jimmie Davis, who is Louisiana's current Governor...
Those Missing Ballots. In 1941 Congressman Johnson ran for the Senate in a special election, came in second out of 29 candidates. In 1948 he tried again -and beat former Governor Coke Stevenson in a runoff primary by precisely 87 votes out of 988,295 cast. Stevenson of course charged fraud, but couldn't prove it-the suspect ballots had mysteriously disappeared...
Coleman, 49, was trying to return to the Governor's mansion, and his appeal came in a desperate, last-minute effort against Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson, 47, in a Democratic primary runoff last week. It was not that Coleman was an integrationist. During his campaign, he tossed the word "nigger" around almost as freely as Johnson. But Coleman did argue for at least law-abiding resistance to integration, and he warned that extreme racism "is going to destroy our state and everything we hold dear if we don't control...
...with being an old friend of Jack Kennedy (whose name is mud in Mississippi), painted himself as the man "who stood up for Mississippi" by blocking, for a while, the admission of Negro James Meredith to Ole Miss. Such is the climate of Mississippi today that the Coleman-Johnson runoff was hardly a contest. Johnson won, with 261,000 votes to Coleman...
Second Time Around. Last week Mississippians went to the polls and gave Paul Johnson a 21,000-vote lead over Coleman (176,500 to 155,700), with Sullivan receiving 128,500. Thus Johnson and Coleman will face each other in an Aug. 27 runoff. Once before, eight years ago, Coleman overwhelmed Johnson in another runoff Governor. But this time, with Mississippi feeling the way it does abou Kennedy Administration and segregation, Johnson is definitely favored...