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Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, the scholarly chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is seeking his sixth term, this year faces the political scrap of his career. His opponent: popular Governor Dale Bumpers. The governor announced last week that he would challenge Fulbright in the Democratic primary...
Bumpers, 48, scarcely represents a radical alternative to 68-year-old Fulbright. Both are moderate progressives in a Southern context. An adroit, crowd-pleasing campaigner, Bumpers exploed into Arkansas politics by running against Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in 1970 and burying him in a landslide. In the statehouse, the former small-town lawyer proved to be an adept administrator. He reorganized the government, improved educational and medical facilities, and lured more industry into the state. But after two terms as the nation's lowest paid Governor ($10,000 a year), he became bored with the job and anxious...
...from Poland, Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas. The family was poor; Jaworski, his two brothers and sister worked their way through Baylor University, where Leon earned a law degree in 1925. He became so skilled a courtroom lawyer that he was hired by a leading Houston law firm, Fulbright, Crocker, Freeman & Bates. Through the years, he showed a talent for absorbing a mass of complex information literally overnight and giving a masterly performance in court the next morning. He became a senior partner in 1951. Today Fulbright, Crocker & Jaworski ranks second only to John Connally's law firm...
Hahm is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Fulbright Scholar. He has been called the Korean Kissinger...
After graduating from Dartmouth, he won a Fulbright scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Moreover, Joseph Papp, one of the Fulbright judges, immediately cast him in his first professional role-as Octavius in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Antony and Cleopatra. "I was a bonus baby," recalls Moriarty, "just like in baseball. I was a raw young talent with little technique and a lot of gall based on very weak foundations-which started to crumble when I got to England...