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...John B. Pahls Jr. Colorado Springs, Colo...
...cannot label Gary Hart," boasts an ebullient supporter of the Democratic Senator from Colorado. Indeed, Hart first achieved national prominence as the manager of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. But then Hart won election to the Senate in 1974, with 59% of the vote, and quickly established himself as neither liberal nor conservative on key issues. For instance, he favors increasing the Pentagon budget, especially for more small ships and more fighter-bombers that can operate from small airfields. He also backs nuclear plants, though he thinks that atomic power will eventually be abandoned as too expensive...
...Colorado voters this year are leaning heavily toward Ronald Reagan, and the Senator's Republican opponent is no ordinary politician. At 22, Mary Estill Buchanan was widowed, gave birth to her second child and graduated from Wellesley College, all within twelve months. The petite Buchanan (5 ft. 2 in.) went on to Harvard Business School (M.B.A. '62), a career as a labor-management consultant, a second marriage and four more children before her divorce...
After serving on several state advisory boards, she was elected Colorado's secretary of state in 1974 and four years later was re-elected by a record 522,000 votes. This year at 45, she set her sights on Hart's seat and beat Runner-Up Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the former Georgia Congressman and Secretary of the Army, who owns an elegant ski resort in Crested Butte, Colo., by 1,603 votes for the Republican nomination...
...Wechmar, 56, the election climaxed a long and distinguished diplomatic career. The son of a Prussian army officer, he served as an officer in Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. Captured by an American unit at Tunis in 1943, he was shipped to P.O.W. camps in Virginia and Colorado, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism through a correspondence course. "We are a famous family of prisoners of war," says von Wechmar, whose brother, father and both grandfathers were all captured by the enemy. "We've had our share of barbed wire...