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Unable to attract the independent "antipolitician" voters he sought, "Westy" lost by more than 5,000 votes to Archconservative State Senator James B. Edwards, 47, a Charleston dentist with a hard-core right-wing following...
...Edwards is given almost no chance of survival in the November election against the winner of a Democratic runoff next week. That race pits Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 58, against a promising newcomer in South Carolina politics, former Harvard Star Quarterback Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, 36, a Charleston investment banker...
...last week Arkansas turned on its most famous son and emphatically denied him a chance to gain a sixth term in the Senate. By the humiliating margin of 65.2% to 34.8%, Fulbright, 69, lost the Democratic primary to Governor Dale Bumpers, 48, who was still a country lawyer in Charleston (pop. 1,497) four years ago when the Senator was leading his devastating attack on U.S. policy in Viet...
...knocked Fulbright out of the Senate is a handsome, affable six-footer with a smile that makes voters grin back. Son of a Charleston merchant, Bumpers was always ambitious, but until 1970 he had achieved, besides a country law practice, only a seat on the local school board and the post of town attorney. The latter job came easily; he was Charleston's only lawyer...
...Fulbright's was cerebral. Bumpers assiduously cultivated his image as the candidate of the common man, the same fellow who had gone on camp-outs with the Boy Scouts, served on the school board and, with his mellifluous baritone, led the Methodist Church choir back home in Charleston...