Mississippi Runoff Battles Narrowly Split Candidates
Mississippi voters chose Winter over Williams by 17,945 votes as Swan Barnett and others trailed. Lieutenant governor race drew attention with Sullivan and Black advancing. Barnett vowed party unity and Williams backed Winter in the runoff while James Meredith campaigned to mobilize the Negro vote.
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Williams
Congress
Winterand
Barnett
Swan
Winter
Mississippi
Dist
Atty
Bill Waller
Jackson
Paul Johnson
Charles Sullivan
Roy Black
Johnson
Ross Barnett
Ole Miss
Sullivan
Black
Natchez
Troy Watkins
Byron de la Beckwith
Aubrey Henson
James Meredith
Grenada
Opposition to New Crime Department Gains Narrow Defeat
State district attorneys opposed granting supervisory powers to a proposed crime department. An amendment to replace supervise with coordinate failed 85 to 41, with critics calling the department a Gestapo-like overreach. The convention adopted a Bill of Rights for workers, while debates over law enforcement power continued amid party crossovers and heated rhetoric.
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Aaron Koota
Brooklyn
James F. Carroll
Saratoga Springs
Senate
Carroll
Earl Brydges
Crime Control Council
Department of Criminal Justice
Richard J. Bartlett
Glens Falls
Criminal Justice Department
Bartlett
Albany
Erastus Corning
Charles G. Clay
Green County
Albert Callan
Columbia County
Albany County
Corning
Francis Bergan
Russell G. Hunt
British Playwright Joe Orton Found Dead in London Apartment
London AP reports prize winning playwright Joe Orton 34 was found dead in his Islington apartment after an apparent incident with a second man found dead nearby. Police said no third party involvement suspected. a bloodstained hammer was seized. Orton’s hit Loot had 400 London performances and movie interest valued at 280000 pounds.
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London
Joe Orton
West End
Orton
Evening Standard
Bernard Delfont
Arthur Lewis
New York
Islington
Kenneth Leith Halliwell
Lawrence of Arabia Tops Popular Hero Poll on Postcards
London AP reports Lawrence of Arabia is the top pick among past heroes in a postcard poll. 120000 postcards sold at the National Portrait Gallery last year place Lawrence ahead of Shaw Shakespeare the Bronte sisters and others. Churchill is excluded due to the ten year dead rule.
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London
Lawrence F of Arabia
National Porstrait Gallery
T.E. Lawrence
George Bernard Shaw
Shakespeare
Te Bronte
Thomas Hary
Sir Francis Drake
Rupert Brooke
D.H. Lawrence
Sir Walter Raleigh
Winston Churchill
Struggle Near Peak In China
Foreign and domestic observers report rising violence and purges in China as Maoist factions clash with anti Maoist forces. Telegrams from Peking describe Red Guards surrounding central districts while Liu Shao chi remains inside as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution intensifies. Analysts in Moscow Izvestia warn of escalating danger and the potential for another major party congress next summer.
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Mao
Peking
China
Kwangtung
Fukien
Kiazigsu
Shantung
Moscow Radio
Wuhan
Izvestia
Imao
Red Guard
Red Guards
Chun
Ighanhai
Communist Party
Liu Shao-chi
Liu
Mad
Press
Dulski Admits Dinner Tied to Campaign Interest
The piece reports on Representative Dulski defending a dinner as a personal tribute to Mrs. Dulski and himself, denying it was intended to raise campaign funds. It notes other lawmakers’ reactions, including remarks by Dodd’s supporters and critics, and mentions postal unions buying dinner tickets and a Post Office spokesman attending without paying.
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Dulski
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Dodds
Senate
James A. McClure
Idaho
Post Office Department
Frederick C. Belen
Belen
H. R. Gross
Brown and Kirk clash as civil rights event stirs Jacksonville
Gov. Kirk and black activist H. Rap Brown drew a crowd in Jacksonville where Brown urged armed readiness against a white system blamed for exterminating natives. Brown’s call to arms drew cries of matches and “The streets are yours” while Kirk defended the speech as misrepresented by the media.
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Cupid
Brown
Jacksonville
Hans Tanler
Kirk
Florida
Tanzler
Duval County
Dale Carson
Tallahassee
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National Cost Board
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Honolulu
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Ocean Judicature Society
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