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Oklahoma: Representative Mike Monroney, despite the high-powered orating and high-pressure campaigning of the Reverend Bill Alexander (see below...
...this crusade," cried Bill Alexander, as background music from a choir swelled behind him, "I see the magnificent march of the living God and I hear the thunder of His feet." He meant that he was running for the Senate against the Democrats' quiet, able Congressman Mike Monroney...
...would cut off foreign aid, because it has been used to promote foreign ideologies like socialism in Britain, would get out of a U.N. where Stalin has a veto. "I want to put a Christian into the U.S. Senate," says Alexander, meaning himself, of course, and ruling out Episcopalian Monroney. Alexander's devoted congregation, Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, is even willing to continue his $12,000-a-year salary while he is there...
...Vigorous, broad-grinned Mike Monroney, 48, a Congressman for twelve years, retired Oklahoma's inept old (73) Elmer Thomas from the Senate in a runoff campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination (TIME, July 17), seemed likely to win in November. His Republican opponent: the Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, a 35-year-old Oklahoma City minister...
Last week a near-record 470,000 went to the polls in the Democratic primary, gave personable Mike Monroney 201,338 votes to Thomas' 187,243. Five other candidates polled enough votes to force a runoff. If Monroney can win again, he will oppose the Rev. W. H. Alexander, a young (35), sidewinding spellbinder who won the G.O.P. nomination with 35,054 votes...