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...Texas' three-term Lieutenant Governor, Preston Smith, 56, a homey, lackluster conservative from Lubbock, defeated Liberal Houston Attorney Don Yarborough* by 756,909 votes to 620,726 in a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Though articulate and imaginative, Yarborough failed to win any major financial or editorial support against Smith, who called for "more of the good, sound, conservative government we have had in the past." In November, Smith will face Wichita Falls Attorney Paul Eggers, a virtually unknown candidate who is unlikely to make Texas history by becoming the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction...
...Senate seat that George Smathers is vacating this year. An urbane lawyer and former director of the President's Com munity Relations Service, Collins, 59, narrowly defeated Florida Attorney General Earl Faircloth, who ran as a "conservative alternative" and forced Collins into last week's runoff election...
...fifth in the ten-man Democratic race. With the support of both labor and the Latin and Negro minorities, Don Yarborough, 42, a liberal Houston lawyer* who was twice defeated in the gubernatorial primary by Connally, topped the Democratic ballot. But without a majority, he was forced into a runoff on June 1 with Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, 56. An archconservative, Smith will probably gain the right-wing votes that were shared with other candidates in the first tally, and thus must now be counted a slight favorite. The runoff will bring the two wings of the Texas Democratic Party...
...passed out posters of her nude self with the legend "Vicky for Pres." It was obviously the right approach for Stanford's heavily male (5-to-2 ratio) student population, which gave her 1,575 votes and made her a heavy favorite to win this week's runoff election...
...support and promises: "We're going to represent all of our people, black and white, 'cause we're all God's children." But the prospect is that whites, who scattered their votes in last week's election, will coalesce to defeat Evers in the runoff...