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Lowenstein, the Democratic-Liberal candidate for Congressman from Nassau Country's fifth district, was exhausted Tuesday. His clothes were rumpled, and his hair kept slipping down over his forehead. He was running against Mason L. Hampton Jr., a Republican-Conservative and often called "the Wallace of Nassau Country...
...Hampton helps us," Lowenstein said Tuesday afternoon, sipping a Coke in a luncheonette. "Hampton helps, like Nixon helps and Agnew helps. Republicans are really useful for helping Democrats...
...Hampton is a founder of New York's Conservative Party. He received the Republican endorsement as the result of a deal in which the Conservatives agreed to support the Republican candidate for District Attorney...
...Hampton's headquarters in Baldwin, L.I., are right across the street from the Lowenstein storefront, but the people inside don't even look the same. Inside Lowenstein's storefront, phones are ringing, people are shouting, women are serving coffee. High school kids are running out to polling places to distribute Lowenstein-O'Dwyer literature. Among the campaign posters on the walls are charts and maps of the district...
...past, at least 18 Negroes have tried to crack Cincinnati's all-white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work...