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This was an authentic affair of the old politics-one that featured a candidate for Lieutenant Governor who broke into Spanish song. Senator Bob Byrd of West Virginia describing Senator Joe Montoya of New Mexico as "a pearl of great price in a chalice of silver." and Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma promising that when he becomes Speaker of the House next year, New Mexico's Congressmen-if Democrats, which they are not now-would surely get committee assignments "that will enable them best to use their talents in the interests of your state...
...besetting the nation ("in all the states of the United States there are undernourished men and women and boys and girls") and concluded with the Kennedy-like assertion that therefore "the business of this country is unfinished," the rafters rang more loudly than they had for any of Senator Byrd's polyloquence. And so they did again when Mr. McGovern asked acidly of President Nixon's veto of the education bill, "if it's inflationary to invest dollars in young minds, why then is it not inflationary to build an antiballistic missile system we do not need...
Rawlings, trying to forge a new coalition of blacks, liberals, and old line Democrats, has continually punched away at the theme of party loyalty-calling Byrd a "turncoat" who cynically abandoned the party when the tide seemed to turn against...
Most pollsters now give Byrd a slim lead over Rawlings, with Garland a poor third...
WEST VIRGINIA: Incumbent Senator Robert C. Byrd faces only token opposition from Republican Mayor of Charleston, Elmer H. Dodson. Dodson is only running because he says he feels the voters should have at least a semblence of a choice...