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Acting on the instructions of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, prison officials agreed only to provide an armored car. The car was rolled into the prison courtyard and another tense wait began...
...Texas, Governor Dolph Briscoe's landslide victory in the Democratic gubernatorial primary probably assures him of a second term and may have ended the political career of his rival, Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold. A multimillionaire rancher and banker, Briscoe, 52, ran on a bland, conservative record and a boast of having avoided new state taxes last year. He surprised even himself by rolling up 68% of the unusually light vote (less than one-fourth of those eligible) and swamping Farenthold, 47, a reform-minded liberal who is the national chairwoman of the Women's Political Caucus. Farenthold...
Earlier this summer, a Houston TV station did a story about the Chicken Ranch that brought excessive attention to an open secret. Governor Dolph Briscoe ordered La Grange Sheriff T.J. Flournoy to enforce the state's antiprostitution law. The town fought back, gathering signatures on a save-the-Chicken petition. Many wives signed, responding to the old argument that morality aside, the house had provided a necessary outlet that protected respectable girls from rape. Flournoy supported the petition drive and even considered a personal appeal to Bris coe. But in the end he did his duty with a telephone...
Until last week Texas law, like the law in most other states, declared that a person had to be missing for seven years before he could be declared legally dead. But at the urging of Peggie Duggan, Governor Dolph Briscoe personally wrote an amendment, which passed the legislature just three minutes before the deadline of its final session last week. Now a man missing in action is considered dead when the Pentagon issues a death certificate...
...Nixon sweep helped to produce a startling political horse race in Texas, where moneyed, conservative Democrats had always coasted to the statehouse on comfortable majorities. Much to his and almost everyone else's surprise, Millionaire Rancher-Banker Dolph Briscoe, 49, found himself in a down-to-the-wire battle with the Republican candidate, Houston History Teacher Henry C. Grover, 45. Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed...