Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winner by some 6,000 votes in a Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...
...Governor were at opposite poles on the issue of race relations. Stocky former State Senator Terry Sanford, 42, had led a field of four in the first primary last month by soft-pedaling his own segregationist sympathies, pushing instead an ambitious program of building schools and luring industry. His runoff opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration, promised to "create a climate of public opinion in strong opposition to integration" and draw closer to the diehard...
Last week, when the votes were counted, the dream became a nightmare: Cliff Case won his renomination by a 2-1 vote over Morris. Said Diehard Morris, without offering Case specific support in the November runoff. "We fought a campaign on principles...
...campaigning against the hypocrisy of Oklahoma's prohibition law, Tulsa's redheaded, young (then 32) J. Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make...
...days he held minor offices, taught school (tutoring yodeling on the side), even made B pictures in Hollywood (Strictly in the Groove, Frontier Fury). His four years as Governor were noted principally for a $38 million surplus (which Successor Earl Long soon spent). But in his runoff race against Morrison, front runner in the first primary (TIME, Dec. 14), Davis dropped his "peace and harmony" theme, picked up the cause of segregation, and ran hard and fast...