Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antithesis of Arkansas' self-image. The state's symbol is a raging razorback, and J. William Fulbright is an owl in gabardine. Though they did not profess to understand him very well or to endorse many of his views, the voters of Arkansas had for 30 years been sending Bill Fulbright to Washington. Like fond, if slightly baffled parents, they took pride in the national and global attention he won as the Senate's foremost authority on foreign affairs...
...last week Arkansas turned on its most famous son and emphatically denied him a chance to gain a sixth term in the Senate. By the humiliating margin of 65.2% to 34.8%, Fulbright, 69, lost the Democratic primary to Governor Dale Bumpers, 48, who was still a country lawyer in Charleston (pop. 1,497) four years ago when the Senator was leading his devastating attack on U.S. policy in Viet...
...work with fungi took him to Cologne, Germany in 1960 where he studied as both a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. In 1967 he was visiting professor of Genetics at Hebrew University in Israel...
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...
...early poll gives Bumpers a commanding two-to-one lead. But then Bill Fulbright usually starts from behind because he is too much of an Arkansas traveler; he does not come home enough to suit the voters. Once he does, however, he knows how to please. Shedding his scholarship, he becomes downright folksy as he reminds his constituents how he has looked after them in Washington-and indeed he has. While fretting over international problems, he has always found time to promote such Arkansas products as soybeans and poultry. His constituents, moreover, take pride in his international reputation even...