Word: blakley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting ended last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff: Conservative Republican John Tower, 35, with 326,400 votes, and Conservative Democrat William Blakley, 62, the interim incumbent, with 191,000 votes...
Much alike in their conservatism, Tower and Blakley differ vastly in almost every other way. A former assistant professor of government at Wichita Falls' Midwestern University, Republican Tower is articulate and youthfully energetic...
...Democrat Blakley has served in the Senate since January, when he was appointed to fill Johnson's seat. A craggy-faced Dallas businessman, he is a major stockholder in Braniff Airways, owns huge hunks of real estate, three insurance companies, a cattle-and-oil ranch, a bank and a shopping center; his net worth runs about $200 million. In the Senate, Blakley bucked the Administration by voting against Kennedy's depressed-areas bill and emergency feed-grains program...
...William Blakley, 62, Dallas millionaire and conservative ("Cowboy Bill" to his friends, "Dollar Bill" to others), who has warmed Johnson's seat by appointment and likes Washington too much to give it up. He plays the Texas headlines adroitly from Washington...
...gangling state attorney general, who is credited with cleaning up sin in Galveston, is the only candidate who has won a statewide race, backed the Kennedy-Johnson ticket down the line, has an efficient political organization to help him, stands to share the bulk of Democratic votes with Blakley...