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Budget Bureau Director David Elliott Bell is the very model of a New Frontiersman: he is youngish (43), brainy, liberal (in a pragmatic way), and he taught at Harvard. Above all, he is loyal to The Chief-to the point that he last week agreed to change jobs, take on the most unsought-after assignment that the Government has to offer. Starting sometime in late December or early January, Bell will become the new U.S. foreign aid chief, replacing Fowler Hamilton, whose resignation last month had been encouraged by President Kennedy...
...debate, won an at-large seat despite the Romney tide. New York's Samuel Stratton, who tried unsuccessfully for the gubernatorial nomination, scored an upset victory in a Republican-gerrymandered district. California's Gus Hawkins, 55, a 28-year veteran of the state assembly and a New Frontiersman, became the first Negro from west of the Rockies to reach the House. He defeated another Negro, Republican Herman T. Smith, 47, in a Los Angeles district that is 70% Negro. And after it was all over, the political makeup of the House remained much the same as before...
Seeking his seventh Senate term, Old Frontiersman Carl Hayden, 85, lay ill with a virus infection in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Back home, followers of Republican Evan Mecham, a Phoenix auto dealer, spread rumors that Hayden had suffered a stroke, that he was dying after a heart attack, that doctors at the hospital had been warned under threat of court-martial not to release news of his death until after Election Day. To convince voters that he was still alive and kicking, Hayden called a press conference-only his fourth in 50 years of public life-three days before election. Arizona...
...that their man was one of the Senate leaders whom Kennedy called back to Washington for consultations about the Cuban crisis. And Dirksen himself leaked a little story that was hardly calculated to inspire confidence in the camp of his Democratic opponent, Congressman Sidney R. Yates, 53, a faithful Frontiersman. According to the Dirksen tale, President Kennedy at the end of the White House meeting asked Ev how he was doing in Illinois. Dirksen gravely expressed doubts. "Aw," laughed the President, "what are you worried about...
...Republican Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, 46, is devastatingly described as "a fat old young man." Running for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Oren Long, Dillingham never had a chance against Representative Daniel Inouye, 38, slum child, war hero, first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent, New Frontiersman ("To be President-Kennedy's rubber stamp is an honor") and by far Hawaii's top vote-getter. If there had been any doubt, it vanished when the Honolulu Advertiser, of which the Dillingham family owns a hefty 12%, astonished the islands by endorsing Inouye. Inouye won by better than...