Word: missouri
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...MISSOURI: LAWYER...
...degree, he holds a bachelor of divinity degree from Yale). He also had a usefully ambivalent image as both a liberal and a conservative. As it turned out, Danforth won the support of an impressive 57% of the voters, and thus will become the first Republican Senator from Missouri in almost 25 years...
Another loser was Missouri Democrat Morgan Maxfield, 35, who ran a campaign in which he gave voters the impression that he was 1) a self-made man, 2) a graduate of Harvard Business School and 3) a swinging bachelor. During the closing weeks of the campaign it was disclosed that Maxfield 1) was the son of a prosperous Texas physician, 2) had only attended a six-week business course at Harvard and 3) was married and the father of two children. He was defeated by Republican Thomas Coleman, 33, a lawyer and state representative...
...Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat with an awesome organization, overwhelmed his G.O.P. opponent by a nearly 2-to-l margin. Among the other intriguing victors...
...MISSOURI: POPULIST INSURGENT