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...Boren drove across Oklahoma, promising to reform the government and "sweep the Old Guard" out of office if he were elected Governor. At the start of his campaign, Boren, 33, was scarcely known outside Oklahoma Baptist University, where he teaches government, and the state capitol, where he is a four-term representative. But his message caught on, and "Boren Broom Brigades" sprang up all over the state. Last week they swept the chubby, soft-spoken Rhodes scholar to a decisive win over Congressman Clem R. McSpadden, 48, in the Democratic primary runoff...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER, 65. An old G.O.P. rival, he is now a fairly cordial supporter of Nixon's, and as four-term Governor of New York he ranks among the nation's most experienced politicians. Main drawback: despite his age. Rocky reportedly still covets the presidency and might thus start acting on his own as soon as he was confirmed...
...fact, that primary campaign was what began Maggie Smith's defeat. During it, her opponent managed to make her age, 74, a campaign issue for the first time. This fall Democratic Challenger William Hathaway, a four-term Congressman, shrewdly avoided direct attacks on Mrs. Smith's age to prevent a sympathetic backlash, but played up his own age, 48, and his vigor. Another factor: Hathaway, a liberal of the Muskie stripe, had prepared for this election by maintaining high visibility. His 6 ft. 3 in. figure was seen everywhere around the state, and his flair for publicity...
Some observers had believed that Lombardi would be hurt by a gambling conviction last December, but instead the four-term representative topped the ticket. Commenting on the reasons for his victory. Lombardi said Friday: "I'm around all the time and I always answer my mail and telephone calls....we did a lot of work...
...solid Liberal-Democratic Party. Nixon's overtures to China split the party into warring pro-and anti-Peking factions; his economic measures lent credence to charges by opposition party leaders that the Sato government had tied itself too closely to the U.S. Sato, who had built his remarkable four-term career on that relationship, had expected to step down triumphantly next spring at 70, after the return of Okinawa from U.S. to Japanese rule. Now he may speed up the search for a successor and retire this fall. The most likely contenders: Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda...