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...North Dakota's Thomas S. Kleppe, 51, who lost a Senate race in 1964, is trailing Incumbent Quentin Burdick...
Quite by chance, there are seven senatorial seats to be filled for which there are no clear favorites. They include a seat being vacated in Ohio and those now held by Democrats Thomas Dodd in Connecticut, Ralph Yarborough in Texas, Gale McGee in Wyoming, Frank Moss in Utah, Quentin Burdick in North Dakota, and Republican Charles Goodell in New York, who was appointed to Robert Kennedy's seat...
...hung on the votes of seven uncommitted Senators, and everyone who had any business being there knew who they were. Nevada's Alan Bible, a Democrat, was the first of the seven to be called. He said "No," and the audience gasped. Other nays followed, and then Quentin Burdick, Democrat of North Dakota, cast the 51st negative vote. "That's it!" someone yelled. Agnew slumped in his big leather chair. Haynsworth had been beaten, and by a surprisingly decisive 55-to-45 margin. It was a bitter defeat for Richard Nixon, who had chosen to lay the prestige...
...treat their national leaders as if they were only extensions of their second-rate counterparts back home. But, during this century, Washington has grown so complex that mayors now must have advisors to learn how to cope with it. Alan Drury's melodramas soon gave way to the Burdick-Fletcher-Knebel potboilers that always had Washington a button away from nuclear destruction--unbeknownst to us all. Dr. Strangelove was the logical extension. Well, The Andromeda Strain is its biological brother. By mixing fact with Crichton's only too probable fantasy, his novel locates itself in a never-never world...
William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick...