Cross Mitchell Centress Win In Official Vote Tally
ANNAPOLIS AP Harold Cross narrowly won the Republican comptroller race and Parran J Mitchell edged a tighter Democratic 7th District congressional contest in official Maryland totals tabulated Tuesday. David Fentress edged Samuel A Culotta in a Republican 4th District race, while Friedel led Mitchell on election night only to be overtaken in later counts by 400 votes. Culotta says ballot omissions in eight precincts may alter results.
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Compitroller
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Maryland
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Samuel A. Culotta
Baltimore
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Samuel N. Friedel
Howard F. Wiedel
State Administrator of Election Laws
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Fentress
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Blair
J. Glenn Beall Jr
Baltimore County
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Kirk Winner Wins Florida GOP Runoff For Governor
Florida's first Republican governor in nearly a century, Claude Kirk, clinched renomination in a runoff over Jack Eckerd. Final unofficial totals show Kirk 195,863 to Eckerd 149,191. In November, he faces state Senator Rubin Askew, who upset Attorney General Earl Faircloth for the Democratic nomination.
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Claude Kirk
Florida
Jack Eckerd
Kirk
Clearwater
Reu.bin Askew
Pensacola
Earl Faircloth
Askew
Faircloth
Lawton Chiles
Farris Bryant
U.S. Senate
Chiles
Bryant
General Abrams Suffers Collapse in Saigon
In Saigon the U S forces commander in Vietnam General Creighton W Abrams fainted during ceremonies at Vung Tau and was hospitalized for the third time this year with a virus infection and mild lung inflammation. He rests at 3rd Field Hospital Saigon and doctors prescribe bed rest and medication.
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Creighiton W. Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Abrams
Vung Tau
Air Force lifts depen dent women ban on mothers in service
The Air Force ends its 1947 policy barring women with children from remaining on active duty after a lawsuit alleged sex discrimination. Capt Teramie Sue Smith, a 35 year old divorcee from Johnson City Tennessee, argued the rule forced a choice between career and motherhood. The new policy allows women to stay on active duty unless they request discharge after adopting or gaining custody of a child.
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Air Force
A. J. Russell
Pentagon
Defense Department
Teramie Sue Smith
Johnson City
Ten
Navy
Andrews Air Force Base
Philippines
Smith
Scientific Vessel Albatross Wrecked Off False Cape
Virginia Beach reports the 63-foot Albatross from Old Dominion University was driven ashore at False Cape during a profile survey when an engine failed. Anchors failed to hold amid high wind and heavy surf. Skipper Eugene Doty and three graduate students waded ashore unharmed.
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APY
Old Dominion University
False Cape
Atlantic
Cape
Eugene Doty
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