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...votes, but the outcome was cast in doubt when his opponent, former Democratic Congressman Ed Edmondson, moved to invalidate the returns from Tulsa County, where Bellmon had piled up a majority of 21,000. Even more confused was the situation in North Dakota, where Veteran Republican Senator Milton Young, 76, was opposed by former Democratic Governor William L. Guy. Young was leading Guy by only 252 votes out of more than 236,000 cast, according to one unofficial tally, so the final result may not be known for several weeks...
...source muses that under the new files law a student's recommendation could consist solely of, "This student wrote a paper of Milton and I gave him a B-plus for the course." The nightmare gets worse: It's who you know, not what you know...
Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp...
...today many public men must sympathize with Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, who hears "On all sides, from innumerable tongues/ A dismal universal hiss, the sound/ Of public scorn." It is a period in which reputations seem extraordinarily vulnerable, in which everyone's bank of prestige faces...
...clearly the issue in North Dakota. Democratic Challenger William Guy, 55, a popular former Governor, does not say in so many words that Incumbent Milton Young is 76. But his campaign keeps emphasizing a need for a "future" leader. The ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Young prefers to talk about his past services to North Dakotans in his nearly 30 years on Capitol Hill. His supporters argue that young people are moving out of the state and the older voters who remain appreciate the incumbent's "maturity...