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Early returns indicated that Nixon would probably win Alaska's three electoral votes, while Democratic House speaker Mike Gravel would edge out Anchorage Mayor Elmer Rasmuson for the Senate seat vacated by Ernest Gruening. Gruening's write-in eort to keep his seat seemed destined to fail badly...
...prove decisive in neck-and-neck contests in seven states-Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon. Alaska is also rated a tossup, because of a write-in campaign for 81 -year-old Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, who was unseated in a primary by Real Estate Developer Mike Gravel. The write-in greatly enhances the hopes of Elmer Rasmuson, Republican mayor of Anchorage. Some significant contests...
Rome is old hat to gravel-voiced Ernest Borgnine, who has already made four films there. But for his two tykes, Sharon, 3, and Christopher, 2, with him during the filming of his latest, The Adventurers, everything was new and wonderful. "My kids are crazy about Italian spaghetti and ponies," said Ernie. "I always have to ask the pony man where he'll be or the kids get mad." All that, plus the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Villa Borghese have kept Papa hopping. For his taste, a movie star spends too much time away from home. When...
...party will probably remain in the moderate hands of men like Humphreyite Mike Gravel, the party senatorial candidate. New Democratic Coalition organizers haven't made contact with state liberals yet, though they will probably work through retiring Sen. Ernest Greuning '07, an early dove, who Gravel deleated in a recent primary. McCarthy forces were weak...
...tradition from the Eskimos, Alaskan Democrats delivered the coup de grāce to Gruening's long and vigorous political life. In the state's primary, they gave 53% of the vote and the Democratic senatorial candidacy this fall to a 38-year-old rival named Mike Gravel...