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Bombshells. To be sure, Goldwater began with a disadvantage. He had to run against peace, prosperity and an in cumbent President who, many thought, probably deserved a full term of his own. Thus, from the very start, Goldwater was told by the pollsters that he had little chance of winning. He ob viously felt that he would have to drop bombshells if he were to make a decent showing. Bombshells he dropped -and some exploded in his face...
...Nebraska race between Republican cumbent Victor Anderson and Democrat Ralph Brooks still in doubt...
...still has the edge in the state's Fifth District, Walter Judd may nave been hurt by the fact that many of his constituents were thrown out of work by a shutdown of the Minneapolis-Moline Co. farm-implement plant. In Missouri's Sixth District, Democratic In cumbent William Hull Jr., 50, is threatened by Republican Stanley I. Dale Jr., 35, who scored a remarkable upset when elected mayor of Democratic St. Joseph in 1950 and another impressive victory when re-elected...