Word: bentsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other. The Democrats seem not to notice. Last week they wound up an old-fashioned brawl for the Senate nomination, just as if the G.O.P. did not exist. The result, according to unofficial returns Saturday night, was defeat for incumbent Senator Ralph Yarborough at the hands of Businessman Lloyd Bentsen Jr. The G.O.P. is likely to be the ultimate victor...
Yarborough's conservative opponent, Bentsen, 49, differs from him in almost every way. Scion of a wealthy Rio Grande family, Bentsen is genteel but wooden. A former Congressman, he heads a $400 million insurance company and sits on the boards of a number of banks and an oil company. Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager...
...Profiteer. Yarborough ignored Bentsen's challenge at first; voters showed little interest in the campaign, and Bentsen was hardly known. The incumbent was concentrating instead on the November contest with Republican George Bush, a cool, articulate conservative. As primary day approached, however, polls showed Bentsen narrowing Yarborough's lead, and the race degenerated into an ill-natured battle. Yarborough called his opponent a "war profiteer" and "tax dodger," both undeserved slurs, while Bentsen linked Yarborough to disorders in Chicago and Washington because of his support of Eugene McCarthy and the peace movement...
...hope that the internal Republican warfare will damage both Taft and Rhodes enough to offset the fact that Glenn has shown no out-of-this-world abilities as a politician. There is no clear favorite. TEXAS. Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough should survive a primary challenge from former Congressman Lloyd Bentsen, who is backed by Yarborough's longtime foe, former Governor John