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...withdrew his name from consideration. That left Hearnes with the inside track-and the G.O.P. with an even stronger chance of picking up a Senate seat in November. The Republican nominee is State Attorney General John C. Danforth, 39, heir to the Ralston-Purina fortune and a skillful vote getter...
...down beside Thomas Payne's bed in Chambersburg Hospital. "How do you feel? When did you first feel sick? Where did you eat and stay in Philadelphia? When did you arrive there? When did you leave? Did you go to the testimonial dinner? Or the go-getter's breakfast? Did you go to the hospitality rooms for the state commander or other officials? Did you have any contact with pigs...
...squeak-through victory against a patsy, either. Running against three serious opponents, Hayakawa achieved a comfortable eleven-point plurality over Robert Finch, 50, his principal adversary. Finch, once a close friend of Richard Nixon's, was California's top vote getter ten years ago when he won the lieutenant governorship. Later he served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration...
...game away in the final stanza, Andy Krouner and freshmen Mike Faught and Dailey Kennedy scoring to power the stickmen to a comfortable 10-5 bulge. MacKenzie assisted on the first two scores to notch five points for the day. He was the team's leading point-getter last season with...
...campaigning lacked force and personality, and his banal statements on the issues apparently persuaded many Oklahoma voters that he was a weak candidate. Bentsen will stay in the May 1 Texas primary as a favorite-son candidate, chiefly to demonstrate his home-state strength as a vote getter and enhance his prospects for re-election this year to the Senate. Thus, even before the first primary, the Democrats have lost two of their eleven declared candidates: Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford, who quit last month...