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Although Mo Udall is more conservative than his big brother (Mo opposes farm supports, has mild reservations about federal aid to education), he seems to be a wild-eyed New Frontiersman compared with Mac Matheson, a former radio announcer who is now part owner of some Muzak franchises and who lost to Stew Udall last year. Devoted to Goldwater, Matheson strongly opposes federal aid to education, minimum wage legislation and the welfare state. Says he: "People are being offered a mess of welfare pottage in exchange for their American birthright...
...only authentic Republican among the serious candidates; Blakley suffered from the split Democratic vote. Next month the chances are strong that enough Democrats will combine behind Blakley to send him back to Washington. But in any event, Texans can be certain that their next Senator will be an Old Frontiersman through and through...
Stumpy Charles Abraham Halleck strolled into the Speaker's lobby of the House of Representatives wearing the sanguine smile of an Indian brave preparing to scalp a New Frontiersman. "I think we always had the votes to beat this one." said the Republican House minority leader. "And I think we still do.'' No matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage...
...office last week after four years as surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service was Indiana's Dr. Leroy E. Burney, 54, an able administrator but ^ man who made no pretense of being a New Frontiersman. In Burney's office* sat Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, 49, whose keener interest in research and in care for the aged make him more acceptable to the Kennedy Administration...
...Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell. The author assiduously shovels away dime-novel apocrypha and discovers, surprisingly enough, an authentic and often amazing frontiersman...