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...Coach Wilkinson's standing in Oklahoma that he easily won his party's nomination, piling up 105,044 votes to 19,170 for his nearest opponent. But November's Election Bowl could be a different matter. There Wilkinson will face the May 26th winner of a runoff between Incumbent Democrat J. Howard Edmondson, a former Governor, and State Senator Fred Harris. Neither of these is any great breakaway runner, but after all, Oklahoma has only had one Republican Senator in the last 33 years...
Meanwhile, the plug will stay pulled, until next month at least, when Udall will study the newest spring water runoff figures. If he decides that Hoover still needs additional power, and if private groups cannot take on the job, the Upper Basin gates will stay open and Glen Canyon will go down the drain...
Morrison did not get a majority in the primary, which put him into a runoff with Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John J. McKeithen. Even though Morrison had twice before run unsuccessfully for Governor, almost everyone thought that this time he would make the grade...
They were wrong. Driving toward the Jan. 11th runoff election, McKeithen, 45, a lawyer-farmer from the small town of Columbia, fell back on the Southern office seeker's tried-and-true technique for getting votes: he ran on the race issue. Although he had al ways before been considered a moderate on race, he now charged that Morrison had made a "deal" with the N.A.A.C.P. for the Negro vote. "Without question," he cried of the first primary, "98% of the colored vote went to Mr. Morrison." To a New Orleans rally he declared: "The only things that increased...
...will face each other in a Jan. 11 runoff primary, which Morrison has a chance of winning. If he does, and goes on to be elected Governor, it will be a tribute to persistence. Widower Morrison, 51, a Catholic, has tried twice before for Governor. In 1956, he was walloped by Ol' Earl Long. In 1959, he led the field by 65,000 votes in the first primary, only to be drowned out in the runoff by guitar-twanging Songwriter Jimmie Davis, who is Louisiana's current Governor...