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...would be desirable to safeguard this eventuality by altering the existing electoral system," it continues. The report suggests a majority-vote runoff system-in which another election is held if no candidate for an office receives a majority...
...statewide exposure during the primary, and his campaign experience and organization will make Cramer a formidable candidate in November. He will face either former Governor Farris Bryant, 56, a conservative Democrat, or State Senator Lawton Chiles, 40, a bright young moderate who forced Bryant into a Sept. 29 runoff...
Gibson is visible now, having confirmed for himself, his people and his city that the system works. In a runoff election with Mayor Hugh Addonizio -himself the political product of Newark's now diminishing Italian voting bloc-Gibson took a surprising 56% of the vote in what had been considered a close race. He won by 55,097 to 43,086, getting 95% of the black vote and almost 20% of the white vote. Among the whites who supported him were hundreds in Italian residential districts and thousands in areas where voters had supported a white candidate, John Caufield...
...scientists point to other products that consume vast amounts of power and have unfortunate side effects-for example, the serious water pollution that is caused by runoff from nitrogen fertilizer and the manufacture of pulp and paper. Instead of throwing away paper, which accounts for 80% of the trash disposal problem, Americans should reprocess it to make more paper and save power as well. Meantime, alternate sources of energy should be harnessed as quickly as possible. They could include nuclear fusion, sunlight, even the earth's own heat...
...both his job and his freedom. He went on trial for his freedom last week in federal court in Trenton, where he is accused of extortion and conspiracy. On June 16, he goes on trial before the voters of his disintegrating and racially embittered city in a runoff election. If he loses, Newark will have its first black mayor, the third in a major Northern city...