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Rarely, in a time of me-too politics and an overcrowded middle of the road, are voters in any state offered a clear-cut choice between opposite paths. In Tennessee's Democratic primary last week, the voters had all the choice anyone could want. Battling for a third Senate...
Admission of Guilt. With his ear-to-ear grin and coonskin cap routine, Estes Kefauver has often been dismissed by pundits as an excessively folksy light weight. But in his battle against "Tip" Taylor, the Keef showed bracing political courage. When Taylor called him a traitor to the South for...
As Tip Taylor campaigned through the flatlands and the Smokies he thumped Estes Kefauver for virtually every integrationist crime except the Emancipation Proclamation, denounced him for turning his back on Tennessee and the South by voting for the civil rights bill in the Senate last spring. "If I had been...
He accused Tip of being against the sacred Tennessee Valley Authority (though Tip denies it) because of his connections with big business. He criticized Tip's attacks on federal aid and charged him with having the support of the "drug interests" who, Estes implies, are out to even the...
If there is anyone here who doesn't feel every qualified citizen should have the right to vote, let him hold up his hand." So far, Kefauver's bold gamble has worked; he has not yet faced an upright hand of dispute.