Word: elected
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Wyoming. The unhappy distinction of being the Democratic Senator most likely to lose his seat to a Republican belongs to J. J. Hickey. The Republican: ex-Governor Milward Simpson. The last time the two met, in 1958, Hickey beat Simpson. But when Republican Senator-elect Keith Thompson died in late 1960, Hickey resigned the governorship and turned the chair over to Secretary of State Jack Gage, who thereupon appointed Hickey to replace Thompson. Hickey's ploy stirred up a lot of voter discontent. Last week, just after he returned from Washington to get his campaign going, Hickey suffered...
...Gaulle's adversaries fear that direct presidential elections may swallow up most of France's dozen political parties, each of which is already riven by factionalism. The moderate right knows it can never assemble enough voters eventually to elect its favorite, Antoine Pinay, as De Gaulle's successor. The Roman Catholic M.R.P. is torn between its conservative clerical and young progressive wings, and the clericals dread the prospect of a popularly elected President's reopening the issue of state aid to church schools, which for more than 100 years split French politics and villages down...
...Grande, the Herald-Post is the prosperous and aggressive reflection of Editor Ed Pooley. 64, who has spent 30 years fighting everything from pigeons to cops on the make. Pooley has steadfastly championed the cause of "Juan Smith," his symbol for the city's Mexican-Americans, helped elect El Paso's first Mexican-American mayor...
...community, thanks to the direction of peppy, longtime (34 years) Editor Louis B. Seltzer, 65, who has won the title of "Mr. Cleveland." Seltzer pays close attention to Cleveland's minorities, has made his paper's endorsement so valuable that it is often tantamount to election. The Press helped boost Frank Lausche from municipal judge to Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator-a triple assist that Lausche himself acknowledges-and also helped elect present Health. Education and Welfare Commissioner Anthony Celebrezze to the Cleveland mayor's chair. >-Scripps-Howard's biggest newspaper, New York...
Whether or not his enthusiasm and personal qualities will elect him despite the obstacles posed by his eager, but unsure organization is hard to tell. The debates do not seem to have given him the impetus he needs, yet Lodge expects that his campaign workers will from the nucleus of a new GOP in this state, even with the expected results in November...