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...keep his throat moist, Cronkite stayed on top of the story all week. He constantly re-queried his field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator Hiram Fong "will tell us more than we want to know about Hawaii." And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett...
...Spong Jr., 46, who told the girls about some upcoming legislation. Well, drawled Spong, one of his first acts will be to end the piracy of U.S. music by Hong Kong publishers who don't pay royalties. So he's going to consult Hawaii's Senator Fong and Louisiana's Senator Long, and then the three of them will introduce the "Long-Fong-Spong-Hong-Kong Song Bill...
...Romney-Chafee combination?might throw him their convention votes. Vermont's Senator George Aiken states flatly: "I've held that Romney is the most promising man we have. He could win." Among other Republican Senators, New Jersey's Case, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Hawaii's Hiram Fong and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith also are said to favor...
...Leader Mike Mansfield, whose parents hailed from counties Kilkenny and Limerick, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, son of Germans. In the semicircular rows that arced to the rear of the chamber sat New York's Jack Javits, son of an Austrian and a Palestinian; Hawaii's Hiram Fong, whose parents were born in China; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff, son of Poles; Rhode Island's John Pastore, son of Italians...
...Cabots and the Lodges, John Volpe, the son of Italian immigrants, was elected Governor, and Ed Brooke, a descendant of Negro slaves, was overwhelmingly re-elected attorney general; in California, George Murphy, an Irish-American Catholic, overcame seemingly impossible odds to be elected Senator, and in Hawaii, Hiram Fong, a descendant of contract laborers brought from China, won re-election to the Senate by a huge majority, while Democrats were sweeping practically all other offices in his state...