Word: getterism
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...Comers. The 67 newcomers include several worth watching. Among the Republicans, former New York Herald Tribune Editor Ogden R. Reid proved to be a rousing vote getter in New York's Westchester County, buried New Rochelle's Mayor Stanley Church by a record plurality. Ohio's Robert Taft Jr., majority leader of the Ohio house and son of the late Senator, swamped Cleveland's inept Richard D. Kennedy to win an at-large seat. Utah unveiled a bright newcomer in Sherman P. Lloyd, 48, a talented Utah state senator, who clobbered Liberal Bruce Jenkins. Florida...
...Bellotti's a first-rater, a real go-getter," Beer said. "It was a mastake not to endorse all three." Of the top three Democratic candidates, only Endicott Peabody, nominee for Governor, was endorsed...
Danny Inouye has a reputation as Hawaii's best vote getter, and Big Ben started a long way behind. But Inouye has been kept mostly in Washington by the agonizingly long session of Congress, and Dillingham has been working up to 17 hours a day to catch up. His simple conservative appeal: "I am dedicated to the proposition of limited constitutional government, states' rights, the free enterprise system, individual responsibility...
...Senate longevity.-This year, at 65 a veteran of more than 17 years in the Senate, Olin Johnston knew how Cotton Ed must have felt. Opposing him in the state's Democratic primary was handsome Governor Ernest F. Rollings. 40. with a record as a strong vote getter. South Carolinians looked for a heated, down-to-the-wire horse race...
...justice to the campaign ahead, or to the responsibilities involved in serving another six years in the Senate." He looked tired, wore a hearing aid for the first time in public. That the campaign would be strenuous was obvious-since former Democratic Governor Abe Ribicoff, a great Connecticut vote-getter, is leaving the Kennedy Cabinet to run for the Senate. Bush did beat Ribicoff for the Senate in the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, but private polls by both parties now showed him trailing Ribicoff...