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...Club this year voted on the basis of the "slate system." A committee of Club executives, past and present, selected four groups of four plays each and submitted them to the membership of the Club as a whole for consideration. Voting was for a particular group rather than for individual plays...
...than Soapy Williams himself. By rounding out his organization and demonstrating his vote-pulling possibilities in 1957, the governor had shown that he is a safe bet to win a sixth term in 1958 and to get national attention in 1960. Some Williams fans even had their 1960 Democratic slate all ready to go: liberal Midwestern Governor G. Mennen Williams for President, and Eastern (Massachusetts), more conservative U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy for Vice President...
Discouraging weather and discouraging scores greeted the baseball team last week in the South. The nine's six-game slate was cut in half by inclement weather, and the team lost each of those games...
...Times 'pooh-poohed Telles' slate as the "P for Pooley ticket". Pooley's Herald-Post attacked Mayor Rogers' record with Page One "photographic editorials" showing potholed pavements and exposed water lines. In their eagerness to clear or smear the city administration, the papers even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such...
Crowning Blow. Last week Pooley and pals celebrated a signal victory. By a margin of 2,754 votes (out of a record 34,883), Telles routed the incumbent mayor, and his People's slate won by a landslide in the Democratic primary, which in Texas is really election. Juan Smiths rejoiced, for Telles' triumph meant that El Paso, for the first time in its history, will have a Mexican-American mayor. One Telles supporter, who had heard the glad tidings south of the border, wrote Pooley last week: "Mexican citizens were giving Americans abrazos [embraces...