STATES & CITIES: Local Affairs

> "Battle Royal" is the name for a free-for-all staged by fight clubs when they dump a dozen battlers into the ring to slug it out until only one is left standing. Battle Royal was the name for Florida's pre-primary campaigns last week. Few were the burning issues, but many were the candidates.

For Governor on the Democratic ticket: eleven—including Busman Burton Schoepf, who partly financed his campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the...

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