Word: winners
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...South Dakota needs: 1) a farmer in the Senate, and 2) a return to high supports. Groton Farmer Ken Holum, 40, got the Democratic nomination over Mitchell Municipal Judge Merton Tice, 46, by an almost two-to-one vote. Republicans predicted (probably correctly) that Francis Case would be the winner...
Montana. Bitterest Democratic contest was for the gubernatorial nomination. The winner: Attorney General Arnold Olsen, 39, vigorous, controversial antagonist of Montana's oil. railroad and utility interests, who defeated ex-Governor (1948-53) John W. Bonner and looks forward to a hard fight with Republican Governor J. Hugo Aronson in November...
Many Social Democrats, including Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, the party's leader, were far from happy to see Matteotti negotiating with Stalin Peace Prize winner Nenni. And right from the start, Nenni flatly refused to meet the most critical Social Democratic condition for collaboration-a demand that he break his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. Matteotti, carefully leaving the door open to further negotiations, said that the first round of talks produced "no ruptures and no miracles." At week's end, however, Saragat stepped in to make it clear that neither he nor the Social Democratic...
Officially, APRA now supports no candidate; to support Prado or Belaunde would be to invite the army to nullify the election on the grounds that an "illegal" party elected the winner. But Apristas individually can still vote-and APRA has told them to do so. Candidate Prado would welcome these votes, but the Apristas are cool to him. Instead, they have rallied to Belaunde. One night last week 60,000 citizens turned...
...campaign drew to an end last week, the fact was that Strongman Odria's election had turned out to be so wide open that not even he could pick the winner...