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Oregon's race for a U.S. Senate seat is the nation's only major contest in which the central issue is the Viet Nam war. The campaign-like the conflict itself-has seesawed to and fro. Last week handsome, two-term Republican Governor Mark O. Hatfield, 44, who has expressed grave misgivings about the Administration's conduct of the war, and Democratic Representative Robert Duncan, 45, a snuff-dipping ex-seaman who stands foursquare in favor of the President's policies, were running almost dead even. A check by Pollster John Kraft showed Duncan with...
...just as well, since no other group could imitate and cash in on it anyway. The Righteous Brothers, on the other hand, are credited with founding a "school of rock 'n' roll, blue-eyed soul." You have to sit up close to verify that Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield do indeed have blue eyes, but you could have sat anyplace in the Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized lightly by one who had devoutly kept "You've Lost That Lovin...
...despite their sound and their songs, the Righteous Brothers managed to do something inexcusable -- they enjoyed themselves at the expense of their sell-out audience and make a mockery of whatever soul was supposed to go along with the blue eyes. They never sang a song straight, except for Hatfield's "Unchained Melody," which he only got to after a five-minute build-up of bad jokes. At one of the emotional moments of "Lovin' Feeling" Hatfield suddenly stopped singing and smirked, "Ooo, let me outta here." And in "Soul and Inspiration," in any case an inferior imitation...
...Moral Certainty. The most immediate result of Hatfield's antiwar stand was, in fact, to bring Democratic Representative Robert Duncan charging into the senatorial race. A firm supporter of the President's conduct of the war, Duncan, 45, felt that Hatfield's position could not go uncontested, and he left a safe constituency to take on the Governor. "I am morally certain," he says, "that if we withdraw, we will be involved in a third world war with Communist China. I'm convinced that if we stand firm, we'll bring to Southeast Asia...
Curious Ambivalence. For his part, Hatfield is doing his best to forget Viet Nam for the rest of the campaign-if Duncan will only let him. The Governor's statements on the war have taken on a curiously ambivalent tone. He chides both "those who would give the President a blank check and those who make a public spectacle of themselves by protesting more for the sake of protest." He pledges "unqualified and complete support" for the men fighting in Viet Nam, and has suggested economic sanctions against those countries shipping into Haiphong harbor. Like everyone else...