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BORN: Nov. 23, 1947, Oklahoma City, Okla. EDUCATION: Polk Junior College, A.A., 1968; U of Florida, B.S., 1971 FAMILY: Wife, Beverly Chandler; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Management consultant; small-business owner POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 1617 Fannin, Ninth Floor, Houston...
...scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin of about 10,000 votes out of a record 195,000 cast, captured the nomination. He may well have won a Pyrrhic victory...
...Honest. Conlan maintained a narrow lead until the closing weeks of the campaign, when the religious issue backfired. The seemingly anti-Semitic tone of his campaign angered Senator Barry Goldwater, the most highly respected figure in Arizona politics. He endorsed Steiger, who had already won the support of Senator Fannin. Throwing aside all caution, Conlan further provoked Goldwater by telling a reporter: "I don't know what it is with Barry. Maybe it's the pain [from a hip operation]. Maybe it's the drinking he's been doing." The outraged Goldwater struck back...
...Leadbelly at least maintains a degree of dignity and professionalism that sets it apart from such charades as Lady Sings the Blues. Parks shows a careful eye for small evocative details on ragged stretches of back-country roads in Texas and Louisiana and for the full-dress promenade on Fannin Street, the wickedest thoroughfare in Shreveport and surely the sprightliest...
...Ford Administration, most Republicans, and politicians from producing states favor scrapping the controls and letting a free market set the price. Arizona Republican Paul Fannin last week offered an Administration-backed proposal for immediate decontrol; it lost, 57 to 31. Most Democrats, and politicians from consuming states, insist on maintaining some controls to protect gas users against too-abrupt price boosts...