Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exciting runoff, Skip Smaha captured the boys' North American sialom title by beating out Ralph Kershaw. Both had successfully run through the sialolm course at 28, 30, 32, and 34 m.p.h. At the point Skip successfully navigated the course with 12 and 18 feet off the regular 75 foot line, picking up four more buoys with 24 feet...
...winter's cobwebs from Kennedy's rambling white clapboard cottage. Across the way at Bobby's house, where Mike Pearson would sleep, roofers scampered around repairing gutters and tacking down loose shingles. Well drillers sank a dry shaft into the front lawn to take the roof runoff in case it rained. Over in the Hyannis marina four miles away, a presidential yacht, the Patrick J., bobbed at anchor, all tuned and ready for an afternoon's cruise. Baxter's Fish Market was standing anxiously by, awaiting the order for lobsters and fish for chowder. White...
...Leader George Brown, an early favorite, got 88; and a third candidate, James Callaghan, who was automatically eliminated, got 41. Only eight votes short of the outright majority needed for victory on the first ballot, Wilson became an odds-on favorite to defeat Brown in this week's runoff...
Wicked Position. Moved from its traditional Goshen, N.Y., setting six years ago, the Hambletonian* is still the most prestigious sulky race in the world. It is run in three one-mile heats (if three different trotters win the heats, the winner is decided in a runoff), and no betting is allowed. Even without betting, feeling runs high-and last week the 90° temperature, heavy humidity and the luck of the draw helped add to the tension as post time approached. The heavy favorite, Andrew C. Petersen's bay colt A.C.'s Viking, had drawn a wicked post...
...first time since he became Governor in 1955, Arkansas' Orval Faubus went sleepless on election night. Seeking a fifth two-year term, Faubus faced five opponents in the Democratic primary. Observers thought the vote would be tight, and many had visions of a runoff election against Segregationist Congressman Dale Alford or moderate ex-Governor Sid McMath. As it turned out, Faubus could have stood in bed: he pulled in about 52% of the votes, more than the combined total won by Alford, McMath and three other also-rans. The one place where his opposition beat him was Pulaski County...