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SENATOR Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) may be involved in the political fight of his career. Some polls show this most outspoken of Senate doves running as far as twenty-five percentage points behind his Democratic primary opponent Robert Duncan. Ex-Congressman Duncan came within a small cluster of votes of beating Senator Mark Hatfield...
...Wisconsin, both freshmen Democrats went down; Lynn Stalbaum lost his seat to ex-Congressman Henry C. Schadeberg, whom he defeated in 1964, and John Race fell before handsome Republican Assemblyman William Steiger. In North Dakota, Democratic Newcomer Rolland Redlin was wiped out. Even one Democratic freshman who had been considered a virtual shoo-in for reelection was shooed out: Nebraska's hard-working Clair Callan, after a nightlong seesaw count, finally lost to Fairbury Attorney Robert V. Denney...
...Arkansas, ex-Congressman Brooks Hays, 67, who was unseated in 1958 after taking a moderate stand on the Little Rock integration riots, became a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to succeed six-term Incumbent Orval Faubus, 56, who says (not for the first time) that he is retiring. Other Democrats in the race include Segregationist State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 41, and Businessman Winston Chandler, 46. However, Hays's chief rival for the nomination is expected to be the man who ousted him from Congress, Little Rock Oculist Dale Alford, 50, who has yet to announce...
...four years in office, Democrat Yorty, 55, a former state legislator (1936-40, 1949-50) and ex-Congressman (1951-54), has moved from ultra-liberal to dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He has run an efficient administration, put qualified professionals in charge of big city departments, and reduced discrimination in city hiring. Like most of his predecessors, however, Yorty expresses paternalistic interest in the city's Negro population but has made little effort to understand its problems or anticipate its difficulties. Though the city's 540,000 Negroes represent more than one-fifth of its population, Yorty...
More specifically, the story concerns Stephen Rojack, a war hero from Harvard (the "one intellectual in America's history with a Distinguished Service Cross"), ex-congressman, T.V. personality, professor of existentialist psychology with voodooish overtones, author, boxer, and stud non-pareil...