Word: cranston
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...Senate was expected to vote this week to set up an eleven-member select committee to investigate not only the CIA but the FBI and the entire U.S. intelligence community, which employs between 100,000 and 150,000 people and costs some $6 billion a year.* Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California said that the probe would cover "anything and everything, not only the illegal and unconstitutional, but also the unwise" activities of the agencies...
...During his recent senatorial campaign, for example, Utah Republican Senator Jake Garn plastered his state with billboards reading: "Garn-candid. Garn-decisive. Garn-aware. Garn-bald." He won by 25,000 votes. When some of his constituents suggested that he wear a toupee, California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston replied: "If I went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering up something else as well." Other public figures who are flaunting their hairless hairlines: Singer-Composer Isaac Hayes, Comedian Don Rickles, the Oakland Raiders' Otis Sistrunk and America...
...Daniel Inouye ran virtually unopposed. Alabama's James Allen got 90% of the vote, Georgia's Herman Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...
Still, from the Rockies to the Pacific, the Democratic trend seems inexorable. In a recent poll in California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
Gordon McKellen Jr., the 1974 U.S. men's champion, and Toller Cranston, the 1974 Canadian champion and 1974 World free-skating champion, headline the event, which will include performances by all 1974 North American gold-medal winners...