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...even have an opponent, and Hawaii's Daniel Inouye ran virtually unopposed. Alabama's James Allen got 90% of the vote, Georgia's Herman Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...
Died. Seymour E. Harris, 77, economist and adviser to Presidents; in San Diego. Harris spent more than 40 years at Harvard, where, with Paul Samuelson, J.K. Galbraith and others, he became an early advocate of then controversial Keynesian economics. As adviser to Candidate Adlai Stevenson and Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Harris acted on his belief that economists should grapple with public issues. "I spend a great deal of my time on public policy," he said proudly. "I am concerned with concrete solutions...
...faded as an issue, the scandal is still hurting the G.O.P. badly. A score or more of attractive Republicans decided long ago to sit out this election. One notable example: Illinois' able Congressman John B. Anderson, 52, who last spring abandoned any thought of challenging Democratic Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. In addition, Watergate tied a square knot in the purse strings of big G.O.P. donors. The Ohio party is nearly broke, and contributions to the Illinois party are off by 90%. Says Michigan's G.O.P. Chairman William McLaughlin: "A lot of people believe that...
...committee, reactivate the Senate Watergate Committee or give an existing committee the authority to go after the remaining evidence to write a definitive history of Watergate. Such a congressional inquiry has already been discussed by several Democratic Senators, among them Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois...
...campaign trail, Nixon gave the whole U.S. a good look at the sometimes ugly cut-and-thrust style he had developed in California, freely tossing about phrases like "Adlai the Appeaser" and "Dean Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment." Nobody was to rise to such alliterative heights again for 17 years, when Nixon's own Vice President ("Nixon's Nixon," as Eugene McCarthy called Agnew) started talking about "nattering nabobs of negativism" and the like...