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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...
Just a few weeks ago, almost everyone conceded that Capehart, a farm-born Hoosier who became a millionaire phonograph manufacturer before his election to the Senate in 1944, was a cinch to be reelected. Everyone, that is, but Bayh, who has been campaigning furiously in a white station wagon equipped with fancy gear for making newspaper photo mats and television tapes. Also born on a farm, Bayh was president of his 1951 class at Purdue University, earned a law degree from Indiana U., was elected to the state legislature in 1954, owns a 340-acre farm near Terre Haute. Admits...
...bull-like voice, beat a fist into a palm, and roar: "There's a hundred ships loaded with Russian equipment on the high seas heading for Cuba. This nation had better act." At a Sigma Delta Chi luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the candidates clashed headon. Bayh claimed that Capehart had drawn $250,000 in federal benefits on his own farming operation while "trying to reduce the income of farmers," and that he had "deliberately violated" the rules of a Senate briefing on Cuba by disclosing that Kennedy planned to ask power to mobilize 150,000 reservists...
Except for the difference in age, it might have been interesting if they had come to blows. Capehart, although pretty pudgy now, was an Army boxing champion in World War I. Bayh was light heavyweight champ at Purdue...