Word: runoff
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...chairman of the full committee, Louisiana Democrat Edwin Willis, was upset late last month in a runoff primary. Willis, 64, attributed his defeat to "Johnson haters...
...RUNOFF PLAN would keep a deadlocked election out of the House by holding a runoff election between the top two candidates in order to determine their electoral vote. It, too, would maintain the chance of a minority President...
...stranger to politics or to Washington. He was a newspaperman before becoming former Governor J. Howard Edmondson's press secretary. He moved to Washington when Edmondson had himself appointed Senator in 1963 but was out of a job upon the Senator's defeat in a 1964 runoff primary. Jim Jones, a fellow Oklahoman working for Johnson, arranged a National Committee post. Jones was rising in status at the White House as an aide to Marvin Watson, now Postmaster General, and with his help Criswell moved up notch by notch in the National Committee. When a new treasurer...
...Democratic gubernatorial primary, Jim Johnson's wife Virginia, also a segregationist ("Aren't we all?"), squeezed toward a runoff with the favored candidate, State Representative Marion Crank. Crank, whose campaign is well fueled by utility interests (he is dubbed "the Natural Gas Candidate"), is expected to win the runoff and then lose to Rockefeller, since Arkansas traditionally gives its Governors a second two-year term...
...committee has grudgingly endorsed Fulbright as a lesser evil than Jim Johnson, a Negro leader has urged union members to join Negroes and white liberals in a protest vote for Bobby K. Hayes. The object would be to take enough votes away from Fulbright to force him into a runoff with Jim Johnson. What if Fulbright should lose such a runoff? Said another bitter Ne gro leader: "We don't care that much." Probably, though, a majority of Arkansans still do. What they want is more response from Bill Fulbright-perhaps some of the down-home concern that...