Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sasser, 40, a successful lawyer with a folksy campaign style, was Democratic state chairman when he decided to try to win back the seat Brock had wrested from Albert Gore in 1970. Sasser backed Jimmy Carter for the presidential nomination; when he won it, Sasser's chances improved markedly, since Carter quickly established an enormous lead in Tennessee. Brock still led narrowly in the polls when Sasser attacked his failure to disclose his finances; heir to a candy fortune, Brock was described by Sasser as "the candy man from Lookout Mountain." Fighting back, Brock tried to link Sasser...
...Senator, Sasser will vote most often with the moderates. He claims to be a Carter-style populist and a disciple of Gore and the late Estes Kefauver. Sasser's manner, Kennedy-esque good looks and ready wit mark him as an attractive Senate newcomer worth watching-particularly since he will have a close, and grateful, friend in the White House...
With a Kennedyesque head of hair complete with untamed forelock, Sasser, 40, parlayed an infectious grin, native acumen and political apprenticeship with Democrats Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore into an upset primary victory. Now he stalks voters relentlessly, grasping hands, patting farmers' backs and children's heads, spouting a Carter-like populism and depicting the beleaguered Brock as a patrician far removed from the concerns of ordinary people...
...near-total contrast to his foe, the urbane Brock, 45, is a reserved, colorless campaigner, a politician who often seems ill at ease at his own rallies. He owes his past victories (four House races and his 1970 conquest of Senator Albert Gore) to his superb organizational skills, on which his hopes for re-election also rest. Brock's conservatism goes down well in Tennessee; he has 15,000 volunteers at work, and he will probably spend more than $1 million by Nov. 2, compared with $500,000 by Sasser. But Tennesseans traditionally cotton more to the down...
...Merle Jeeter-prepares stoically for television's first testicle transplant. As for good ole Merle, he becomes a "born-again" politician. Also tripping into view will be a Miss Tippytoes, a glamorous CB radio freak who Mary thinks has a handle on her husband Tom. Then there is Gore Vidal, who visits Fernwood to see if there is a book in the larger meaning of Mary's breakdown. Says Norman Lear, executive producer of MH2. "My bent as a mature human is to entertain with the material that life affords...