Word: runoff
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...effect of producing no clear majority was to throw the contest into a November runoff between Richardson and Rafferty. Between now and then, California will hear a lot more sharp and generally wholesome debate on what its schools should...
...choice before the Democrats of Texas seemed simple enough. In a runoff primary for Governor they could select John Connally, 45, an avowed conservative. Or they could choose Don Yarborough, 36, a Houston lawyer who is about as liberal as Texans get. But in its final days the fight got so nasty that the selection no longer seemed simple...
Alabamans last week picked for their next Governor a man whose segregationist ideas would make Orval Faubus seem like an admirer of the N.A.A.C.P. Winner of a Democratic primary runoff: former Circuit Judge George C. Wallace, 42, of Barbour County...
...coming down. Six Democrats had been campaigning for Governor-but now, after a primary in which more than 1,400.000 voters turned out, the field was down to two. On June 2, former Navy Secretary John Connally, 45, and Houston Lawyer Donald Yarborough, 36, will collide again in a runoff...
...strength of his primary showing and conservative platform, Connally is favored to win the June 2 runoff; one person who will do his best to see that he does is Vice President Lyndon Johnson, whose power at home hangs on a Connally victory. Yarborough tried to stir support by challenging Connally to a television debate. Connally cannily turned down the dare, whereupon Yarborough exploded: "The great Governors of the past, such as Sam Houston, Jim Hogg and Jimmy Allred. would have never placed their tails between their legs and slunk away from the challenge...