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When North Dakota's aging (65) Senator "Wild Bill" Langer decided to run for re-election this year, he seemed to be a candidate's dream of an opponent. There were so many things in his record...
...weeks pundits had been adjusting their political Geiger counters to pick up every psychological click from South Dakota's Republican primary. Those 14 delegates were important, everyone agreed, but the bigger prize was the effect on voters everywhere of victory in the last state primary...
After the national speculation about South Dakota and psychology, the Republican voters had put their primary right back in its place: a contest for delegates. Bob Taft was the winner even if his margin was only 615 votes. There were 14 delegates to be had in South Dakota, and he had them...
...Enemy? Kefauver is the candidate whose effort most nearly resembles a straight struggle for delegates. Last week, after he picked up 68 delegates from California and eight from South Dakota, he claimed a total strength of about 300. Yet even the Kefauver people know that Truman and the other party leaders will go into the convention in control of 700 or more votes which Kefauver probably cannot touch unless the leaders decide to hand them...
Broadcasting from Washington after his last hard-driving primary campaign in South Dakota, Bob Taft concentrated on what he had found to be "the greatest concern" of the American people: U.S. foreign policy. With forthright emphasis, "Mr. Republican" denied the existence of genuine bipartisanship in foreign affairs, denounced the diplomacy of Truman and Acheson as "the most disastrous" in the whole history of U.S. foreign policy, then offered his own formula to protect freedom and defeat Communism. He disavowed isolationism in the strongest terms, and called for a "crusade" to "spread the doctrine of individual liberty throughout the world...