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Apart from Culver in Iowa, only two other Democratic freshmen survived?Andrew Jacobs and Lee Hamilton in Indiana?largely because of skillful gerrymandering by the Democratic legislature. However, the G.O.P. unexpectedly unseated a veteran Hoosier House fixture, eight-termer Winfield K. Denton, who lost to Management Consultant Roger H. Zion, 45. Reflecting farmer unrest, the G.O.P. captured, by one estimate, 57% of the rural vote v. 49.7% in the Goldwater debacle. Of 19 Democrats newly elected in 1964 throughout the region, 16 were retired. In all, Republicans picked up a net gain of 22 House seats in the Midwest?almost...
Died. Susannah Robinson Tarkington, 95, widow of Hoosier Novelist Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons), whom she married in 1912 and nursed through years of near blindness until his death in 1946; of arteriosclerosis; in Indianapolis...
...Mario Andretti, 25: the 150-mile Hoosier Grand Prix, his first major victory, though he was named Rookie of the Year at the Indianapolis 500 for placing third; at Indianapolis...
Nonetheless, last week the young Hoosier was getting quite a name for himself. On the side of the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair is an Indiana "mural" made up of the letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work...
...Thank you for printing Hoosier Governor Welsh's denunciation of Alabama's Wallace [April 24]. It appears that Wallace's "armor-plated skin" has met its match in another Governor's valor. It is not the first time Matt Welsh has stood up for principles that are perhaps politically unpopular...