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Widows of U.S. Senators sometimes make appealing Senators themselves: Oregon's Maurine Neuberger was appointed to fill out her husband Richard's term in 1960, went on to win another six years of her own. But the Senate's newest widow quickly put an end to any...
Nobody ever got more political mileage out of a minor Senate subcommittee job than the late Estes Kefauver. As chairman of the Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, he mounted crusading investigations into a myriad of alleged wrongs, from price rigging in the electrical industry to overcharging by drug companies. To replace...
As for Kefauver's Senate successor, Tennessee Governor Frank Clement, 43, named an aging, ailing politician who is obviously going to Washington just to keep the seat warm. He is longtime Democratic National Committeeman Herbert S. ("Hub") Walters, a millionaire roadbuilder, banker and natural-gas distributor. Walters is 71...
* Named to Kefauver's Appropriations Committee post was Wisconsin Democrat William V. Proxmire, an unorthodox liberal who called the appointment "a golden opportunity to keep federal spending down."
The late Sen. Kefauver's last act in public life was to introduce an amendment to the Administration's current space authorization bill designed to prevent A.T.&T. from using government-financed research without paying for it. The amendment, of course, was defeated. Instead, the Senate passed a meaningless amendment...