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Tennessee: In the only state with two Senate races, a couple of staunch Goldwater Republicans who have never won an election are challenging two veteran Democratic officeholders. Two-term Democrat Albert Gore, 57, is favored over Memphis Businessman Dan H. Kuykendall, 40. But Representative Ross Bass, 46, running to fill the last two years of the late Estes Kefauver's term, may have rougher sledding against Knoxville Attorney Howard Baker Jr., 39, who is Everett Dirksen's son-in-law. Still, the pro-Democratic Negro vote and displeasure over Goldwater's stand on TVA are expected...
...which medicare was attached. Passed by both houses, this bill would have provided $5 to $7 raises monthly for some 20 million persons on Social Security. It collapsed in conference when three Democratic Senators - Louisiana's Russell Long, Florida's George Smathers and Tennessee's Albert Gore - refused to approve the bill unless medicare was included. Gore even threatened a filibuster. The three held out because each wanted to uphold the Senate position, thus gain more points in their rival ambitions to succeed Hubert Humphrey as Democratic whip. Also lost in the shuffle, to Johnson...
...hearty round of applause and much effusive speechifying upon entering the Senate chamber. Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, recalling photographs taken of Lyndon and Hubert riding horseback in their business suits, twitted his colleague: "You are better on your feet than in the saddle." Tennessee's Albert Gore quoted The Book of Job: "He smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting...
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating, well-researched historical novel, yet it remains oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman Emperor whose turbulent 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between Hellenism and early Christianity...
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating historical novel, well researched, yet remaining oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman emperor whose turbulent, 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between pagan Hellenism and early Christianity...