Word: kefauveritis
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Nelson began the practice as soon as he got out of high school in Biloxi, Miss., in 1947. As a reporter for the Biloxi Daily Herald, he probed the city's gambling so effectively that it was finally investigated by Senator Estes Kefauver's peripatetic investigating committee. In...
Cramer is running a slick, wellfinanced campaign and is proud to tell the folks that he is running "because President Nixon asked me to." Nobody of such stature asked Chiles to run, so he walked-1,003 miles down the middle of the state. In a revival of the old...
The Democrat's hammerings at local ills have earned Hicks national honor. Last year, at the annual conference of weekly-newspaper editors, he won two awards for courageous leadership. But in Monroe County, birthplace of Estes Kefauver and a haven for bootleggers, Hicks is no hero. Even those who...
The state's attempts to clean up its own house have been few and far between. Immediately after World War II, a gambling crackdown in Bergen County netted only a 15-year-old boy for taking telephone bets. But following the late Senator Estes Kefauver's disclosures of...
Unexpected Support. "Nader's Neophytes" (TIME, Sept. 13), who were given access to the FTC's personnel and records, found the commission riddled with politics and patronage. Employees tend to be unduly compliant with the wishes of individual Congressmen, who are sometimes much less interested in protecting the...