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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...
...Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough...
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...Johnson and his longtime ally, retiring Governor John Connally, were set back when their gubernatorial candidate, Eugene Locke, 50, former Deputy Ambassador to South Viet Nam, ran a poor 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...
...some of the 60 U.S. Congressmen who attended the funeral, and found themselves forced to wait outside. "I'm Fred Schwengel," announced the Iowa Representative. "What's your business?" came the curious reply. Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, Maine's Edmund Muskie and Texas' Ralph Yarborough had to stay outside the church. Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther was shoved brusquely aside with the rest when a burly Negro marched through crying: "Make way for Wilt, everybody, let Wilt come through." Into the church, his faintly smiling face high in the breeze, stalked Basketball Star Wilt...