Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been a power second only to the Speaker. And until death silenced his oratorical thunder in 1963, the Sooner State's Bob Kerr had no peer among the exalted unofficial overlords of the Senate. When Okla homa sent Fred Roy Harris to sit in Kerr's Senate seat, it was like a zephyr taking over from a monsoon. Or so it was assumed...
...Harris was a state legislator, and at 33, after finishing fifth in a gubernatorial primary, he won the remaining two years of Kerr's Senate seat by upsetting ex-Governor J. Howard Edmondson (who had appointed himself Senator after Kerr died) in another primary, then edging famed Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson in the 1964 general election. Now he and LaDonna, who have three little Indians of their own, move in Washington's more rarefied social circles...
...shambling, loudmouthed oaf from Texas. As she tells it, his cronies (Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, Joe Alsop, Sam Rayburn) maneuvered him into the vice-presidency but his legendary prowess at senatorial politics was a fraud. Mrs. Lincoln even claims that President Kennedy came to rely on Bob Kerr and Mike Mansfield when his programs were stalled on Capitol Hill, believing that Johnson hung around talking instead of getting legislation moving...
...JOSEPH KERR Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...many struggling private colleges or deplete the strength of the better ones-all of which face an economic crisis (TIME cover, June 23). Educators agree that the two sectors need each other. The University of California may have set high standards for all state schools, notes Clark Kerr, "but we got those standards from private institutions like Harvard and Yale...