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...changed, too. His hair was greyer, his face was pouchier, his lines had lost their punch. When the votes were counted last week in Alabama's Democratic primary. Big Jim was third in a field of seven. Selected to face each other in the May 29 runoff: former Circuit Judge George Wallace, 42, who promises that he will go to jail before permitting integrated schools, and Tuscaloosa State Senator Ryan deGraffenried. 37, a racial moderate. If it was any consolation to Folsom. Birmingham's super-segregationist Public Safety Commissioner. Eugene ("Bull") Connor, finished a sorry fifth...
...face of indifference, it seems unlikely that any Democratic candidate will win the primary majority in May, and the top two will have to fight it out in a June runoff. The eventual winner will face Jack Cox, 41, an oil-equipment executive and a leading Democrat himself until he was defeated by Daniel in the 1960 primary. With that, Cox jumped the party to become a Republican and run for Governor this year...
...Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field will face each other in a runoff late this month...
Slugfest. Last April Yorty again sallied forth against the will of party leaders, surprised everyone by finishing close enough to Poulson in a nine-candidate election for mayor to force last week's runoff. Opposed by leaders of both parties and by all four major Los Angeles dailies. Yorty fought his special kind of bare-knuckled campaign. He cried out against the "entrenched downtown interests," vowed to fire the whole police commission if elected, and questioned darkly how Poulson could afford a cattle spread in Oregon worth, or so Yorty claimed, a cool...
Corn in Percival. The major work picked up impetus after World War II, as the Corps of Engineers divided their labors among several control systems. Dams, reservoirs, floodgates, riprap and levees were built to control the flow rate. Reforestation and soil-conservation practices decreased flood runoff. By enlarging and lining channels, removing snags and other obstructions, and by straightening bends, the engineers reduced flow resistance. Combined with local expenditures, these federal programs will eventually provide for 87 million acre-feet of flood-control storage in 219 reservoirs in the U.S., more than 9,000 miles of levees and floodwalls...