Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...last name is Bayh...
...last two weeks of the campaign. Hoosiers heard little else on radio and television stations. That campaign song was the climactic effort by Democrat Birch Bayh, 34, to unseat three-term Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65. And unseated Homer was. But it was less because of Bayh's jumpy theme-tune than because Capehart looked, talked and acted like an old codger...
...Bayh, he was raised on an Indiana farm, took a degree in agriculture at Purdue, won election to the state house of representatives at 25. He became minority leader in 1957 and speaker in 1959, meanwhile earned a law degree at Indiana University. He started his hard campaign for the Senate a full year ago. Says Bayh: "I feel the average voter is impressed by a fellow who's out there just working his tail off." Homer Capehart. who just happened to be a responsible, hard-working Senator, would have expressed the same sentiment-but in the words...
Indiana's Republican Sen. Homer Capehart finally went to defeat late yesterday morning after 18 years in the Senate. Capehart, who has repeatedly called for an invasion of Cuba, was overcome by Birch E. Bayh, minority leader in the Indiana legislature...
...only major contest Birch Bayh held a 10,000 vote lead early this morning and appeared to be headed for an upset victory over incumbent Republican Senator Homer Capehart...