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With 52 per cent of the votes counted, Republican S.I. Hayakawa was narrowly leading incumbent Sen. John V. Tunney (D-Calif.) in the California senatorial race last night...
...Associated Press reported that Hayakawa led Tunney by 1500 out of a total of 3.6 million votes tallied...
...year-old Hayakawa, with a longstanding reputation in academic circles as a semanticist, achieved national recognition in 1968 as president of San Francisco State College; he took a decisive stand against student protests there and, in one widely publicized incident, personally ripped the wires out of a student sound truck...
California--In a state that has cooked up a dazzling array of eccentric political personalities, the current Senate contest between Democratic Senator John F. Tunney and Republican S.I. Hayakawa is certainly not an anomaly. Hayakawa, a conservative folk-hero from the days of campus unrest, has launched his political casreer at the ripe age of 70. With a tam-o-shanter upon his head as a trademark, the college president travels the state with a bizarre campaign style that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls...
...richer fare than the winners. Ronald Reagan captured the Texas primary, concluded Mark Russell, because he promised to extend the state's borders southward to Panama and install an exact-change lane in the canal. (Reagan's Panama hat is now worn by California Senatorial Candidate S.I. Hayakawa, who insists: "We should keep the canal. We stole it fair and square.") Chevy Chase on NBC's Saturday Night rather sickly reported that George Wallace, "aiming to set the record straight" about his physical qualifications for the presidency, "demonstrated his strength at a luncheon today by crushing...