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...Senate this week came Edward David (Ted) Crippa, 55, of Rock Springs. Wyo., a lean, eager merchant, banker and auto-dealer whose father was born in the Tyrolean Alps. Appointed by Wyoming's Republican Governor C. J. Rogers to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Lester Callaway Hunt, who shot himself to death last fortnight (TIME, June 28), Republican National Committeeman Crippa restored the G.O.P. to a numerical majority in the Senate. The count now: 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Wayne Morse. Appointee Crippa will not run for the full Senate term in the November election. Leading contender...
...fortnight ago Wyoming's Senator Lester C. (for Callaway) Hunt, 61, completed a lengthy hospital checkup, announced that because of ill health (a kidney ailment) he would not run again. One morning last week, Hunt entered the Senate Office Building, his coat partially cloaking a .22-cal. Winchester rifle. In his office, Hunt sat down in the swivel chair behind his desk and fired a shot through his brain. Four hours later, after emergency surgery failed, Lester Hunt was dead...
...been bothered by the sheer cussedness of Wyoming voters. Although basically Republican, they have the Westerner's weakness for personalities, never hesitate to vote for genial and able Democrats. Last week Republican prospects soared when one of Wyoming's best-liked and most able Democrats, U.S. Senator Lester C. Hunt, 61, announced that he would not run for reelection for reasons of health...
...Harrison, filed for the office and became the best bet for the G.O.P. nomination. Harrison (now serving his second term in the House) has been unusually good at keeping his fences mended and running errands for folks back home. He had wanted to sidestep an election fight with popular Lester Hunt, but with the Senator out of action, Harrison, like all Wyoming Republicans, was suddenly feeling tough and cocky...
...careful fifth. Almost out of sight behind the gorse at the far turn, the field thundered into the dangerous, downhill arc of Tattenham Corner. Rowston Manor faded. Landau quit. And then, in the stretch, Never Say Die made his move. Booted by his 18-year-old jockey, Lester Piggot, he passed the wire a healthy two lengths ahead of another 33-to-1 shot, Arabian Night. The youngest jockey to ride a winner in Derby history had ridden the first American-bred winner since Iroquois...