Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand-pick a few of the elite to vote in each precinct or ward, give these results to the news services and let them pick the winner for us? Wouldn't that save a lot of people the time and effort it takes to cast their ballots...
...Governor of Kansas. Do newsmen mean to tell me that this doesn't affect the voting? It would seem to me this is a great disservice to the electorate and grossly unfair. To predict a trend is one thing, but to come out and say there is a winner when all the polls aren't even closed is not freedom of reporting. It is license...
...little or no opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office?notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson in the primary...
...lone holdout in Salt Lake City most likely would have fallen to the G.O.P. if Governor Calvin Rampton did not have two more years to serve. Of all the West's Democratic gubernatorial candidates, only Incumbent John Burns in Hawaii survived the pervasive Republican wind. Another possible Democratic winner is Alaska's William Egan, who withdrew an early concession in hopes that a recount and a tally of absentee ballots would return him to office...
Senior Jim Thomson, the Leverett House halfback who scored nine touchdowns and threw for three more this year, was named winner of the Rhesus J. Portfolio Trophy yesterday...