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...normally cherubic face of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65, turned an angry red. His big fists grasped the lapels of his Democratic Senate opponent, sturdy Birch Bayh Jr., 34. Growled Capehart: "Don't try to get away." Snapped Bayh: "Take your hands off me." The performance was a bit too competitive, even for the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and an onlooker rushed in to prevent a fist fight...
...cause of the quarrel was Democrat Bayh's belligerent drive to prevent Capehart from becoming the first Hoosier ever to serve four terms in the Senate. The specific incitement was an issue which seems likely to stir emotions of candidates -and voters-from now until November. The issue: Communist Cuba, and what to do about...
...Democrat Bayh (pronounced by), former Speaker of the Indiana House, angrily denounces Capehart as a "warmonger." Capehart, he charges, is "playing politics with the blood of American boys and the safety of American homes." Bayh supports the Kennedy Administration argument that Castro may collapse from economic chaos, cites the Kennedy pledge that action will be taken against any aggressive attempt to export Communism from the island. Bayh's argument is sometimes effective. Acidly commented one farmer: "Sure, let Homer call for an invasion; we'll all follow him when he yells 'charge' and hits the beach...