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Estes Kefauver was one of a long and honorable line of United States Senators who have defended the individual fearlessly and with compassion. Like George Norris and Robert M. LaFollette, whose worthy successor he was, Kefauver emerged from a gentle strain of native-bred populism, rooted in an ideal of...
Kefauver's investigations of racketeering and organized crime in 1951 made him a national figure. His true quarrel, though, was not with the gangsters and thugs, freakish vestiges of the Prohibition experiment; it was with a more subtle kind of greed, the greed of huge industrial combines and arrogant bureaucrats...
Two days before he died on Saturday, Kefauver was still fighting, this time against a second huge giveaway to the privately owned Communications Satellite Corporation. His death robs the individual of an honest spokesman and protector.
Then there was the income tax, the world wars, and a kind of modern-times puritanism that mournful Saratogians refer to scathingly as "Kefauver fever." The Spa seemed suddenly spent. The Club House became a museum, and the last open crap game had to start floating 13 years ago. The...
The unpledged elector plan, aimed at loosing states from national party ties, is not likely to get very far. But it does call renewed attention to a wide spread feeling that the U.S. electoral college system, as set forth in the Constitution, is an anachronism. Under examination by the Kefauver...