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...Reubin Askew, a straight-arrow Democrat, took the starch out of Florida's rumbustious Governor Claude Kirk: "Government by antics," Askew cried, and 57% of the voters agreed. Askew is a refreshingly different newcomer to politics: a Presbyterian elder and a nonsmoking teetotaler who once said his favorite hobby is going to church. Kirk had managed to split the Republicans by pushing Judge G. Harrold Carswell into the U.S. Senate primary against Representative William Cramer...
...Republican Party in Florida failed and Rep. William Cramer, a shoo-in before his primary fight with Harrold Carswell, lost to Democratic State Sen. Lawton Chiles, a political unknown who eschewed TV commercials for a highly publicized hike across the state. "Walkin' Lawton's" running mate, State Sen. Reubin Askew, also won, ending the stormy political career of Gov. Claude Kirk...
...state's gubernatorial chair now occupied by a Republican seem unexpectedly bright in Florida. Rambunctious and resilient Governor Claude Kirk split the party when he lured rejected Supreme Court Nominee G. Harrold Carswell into a Republican primary for the Senate, whereas Democrats are displaying uncommon unity behind Reubin Askew, a teetotaling Presbyterian elder whose favorite "hobby," he says, is going to church. Askew accuses Kirk of "government by crisis," inept fiscal management and a 45% increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal and a "Goody Two-shoes powder puff." The race...
Zoologists Laurence Cook and Richard Askew of Manchester University, and James Bishop of Liverpool University intermittently collected moths from 1966 to 1969 in the same area where the previous survey had been made. The results, they report in Nature, are "very highly significant." Of the 972 specimens collected, 25 were of the speckled variety, a clear indication that the peppered moth is again in the process of changing...
Brown stuck to the war, like some Chinese water torturer, coming back again and then again to the death tolls, the waste, the askew priorities that favor death to life. "Let us make this election a referendum on the Viet Nam War." he said. "If Richard Nixon understands nothing else, he understands politics-he understands how to count votes." The Cambodian venture and Kent State came along and played right into his strategy, falling in line so neatly that a Faust might have bargained his soul for them. As the campaign hit the homestretch and the kids flocked to Brown...