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...WOMEN OF WATERGATE by MADELEINE EDMONDSON and ALDENDUER COHEN 228 pages. Stein...
...Doubt. Democratic candidates won in Kentucky and Florida, Republicans in Nevada, Utah and New Hampshire. In Oklahoma, Republican Senator Henry Bellmon appeared to have retained his seat by 3,100 votes, but the outcome was cast in doubt when his opponent, former Democratic Congressman Ed Edmondson, moved to invalidate the returns from Tulsa County, where Bellmon had piled up a majority of 21,000. Even more confused was the situation in North Dakota, where Veteran Republican Senator Milton Young, 76, was opposed by former Democratic Governor William L. Guy. Young was leading Guy by only 252 votes out of more...
...Ford flew to Oklahoma, which gave Richard Nixon 75% of its vote in 1972. Ford arrived in Oklahoma City at the same time that the Republican-oriented Daily Oklahoman published the results of a random survey of 2,900 voters, showing Republican Senator Henry Bellmon trailing Democratic Challenger Ed Edmondson by 13 points and Republican Gubernatorial Nominee James Inhofe lagging behind Democrat David Boren by 49 points...
...EDMONDSON v. BELLMON One of the best-financed candidates in the nation, Republican Henry Bellmon, 53, would have had little trouble winning re-election had he not voted against a constitutional amendment to ban busing. That hurt him in Oklahoma City, where schools are under court order to integrate. Democratic Challenger Ed Edmondson, 55, a former Congressman, tools round the state in his own car preaching a vaguely populist gospel in contrast to Bellmon's support for big business...
...While Edmondson is a deft public speaker, Bellmon, who looks more like a Green Bay Packer than a Senator, never knows what to do with his hands and stumbles over every speech. But that wins him sympathy. "Pore Henry," Oklahomans say somewhat admiringly, "cain't speak worth a damn." Bellmon by a hair...