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...polls. Since none of the candidates gained a majority in last week's election, Evers and the runner-up, Charles Griffin, 41, a longtime congressional aide to John Bell Williams, who picked up 28,806 votes, will face each other in a March 12 runoff...
...abysmal failure to implement the "Truth in Negotiations Law" causes the greatest runoff in defense funds. From minimal spot-checking over a ten-year period, the GAO has turned up some $130 million in overcharges to the government. Senator Proxmire attributes "billions of dollars" to this failure. The absence of many Defense cost records and the shoddiness of others makes it impossible to calculate the exact amount of wastage, but every indication points toward a multi-billion dollar...
...more compelling explanation is offered by Sanford Watzman, whose articles about Defense waste in the Cleveland Plain Dealer were inserted in the Congressional Record last fall. Watzman attributes the runoff in defense funds and profiteering by the contractors to the "symbiotic relationship" of the "military-industrial complex." One lives off the other and vice-versa. As the result, the public is fleeced...
...Resignation. C rations came in handy to ranches isolated by flood- level runoff from the snow, which cut U.S. Highway 66 along much of its Arizona course. A man in Miami, Ariz., was rescued by choppers, but his pet monkey was found frozen to death, hanging by its tail from a tree. Other Navajos like Lily Crookedfinger, 90, and the Tsosie brothers were less fortunate: they died of exposure in the high country. Sheepherder Joe Shaggy, 25, weathered the blast though several of his woolies froze to death...
...might well win next spring's primary hands down, only to be defeated in November by a Republican-who would be the first to hold the office since Reconstruction. Though outnumbered 6 to 1 in voter registration, Texas Republicans are ideologically close to Connally Democrats. In a 1961 runoff election to fill Johnson's old Senate seat, Conservative Republican John Tower won handily, was re-elected last year with a startling 57% victory margin. Next year, Tower will be a possibility for the governorship, along with freshman Republican Congressman George Bush, a 20-year Texas resident...