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...muddled Democratic marathon, no candidate gained much ground as a result of last week's Oklahoma caucuses. At week's end, according to an unofficial tally, Jimmy Carter had 18.5% of the vote, followed by Fred Harris with 16.5%, Lloyd Bentsen with 12.5% and George Wallace with 10.5%; another 41% of the votes were uncommitted. Afterward, Texas Senator Bentsen looked hard at his bleak third place, which followed an even worse fourth place in Mississippi last month, and sensibly decided to pull out of the presidential race...
First, the good signs. Even before the returns filtered in from Democratic delegate caucuses in Iowa and Oklahoma, which launched Carter into contender status, reporters were heading toward Atlanta to begin checking into the former Georgia governor's record and the veracity of his campaign rhetoric. Ex-Georgia legislator Julian Bond, a black, had hinted in speeches in New England before Christmas that he, for one, was not in the Carter camp, and didn't esteem Carter as the paradigm of a civil rights candidate. (Carter's press releases had claimed Bond and all other Georgia civil rights leaders were...
...which plays at a competitive level a few notches (a generous assessment) beneath Harvard's, this match was the equivalent of a Crimson-Oklahoma football game--there was no way the Engineers could win, but maybe they would pick up a few pointers in defeat. Besides, both schools are on Mass...
...slush fund. Unpleasant facts spilled out in an ugly torrent. According to the McCloy report, Gulf had slipped money to a host of prominent politicians over the years, starting with Lyndon Baines Johnson, who received $50,000 in 1961 when he was Vice President. Other alleged recipients included Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination; Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania; New Mexico Republican Senator Edwin Mechem, now a federal judge; and Indiana Republican Representative Richard Roudebush, now chief of the Veterans Administration. Dorsey maintains that he was told about such U.S. contributions long...
Died. William A. Blakley, 77, conservative Texas Democrat who twice filled an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate; in Dallas. Sometimes called "Cowboy Bill" for his early ranch-hand days in Oklahoma, later "Dollar Bill" in recognition of his status as a self-made centimillionaire who with his wife gave $100 million to a foundation that he helped to create, Blakley was first appointed to the Senate for eleven weeks in 1957. He left saying, "I shall go back to my boots and saddle and ride toward the Western sunset," but came galloping back in 1961 for another six months...