Word: packwood
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...Oregon's senatorial race, the Election Night suspense persisted for days. Last week it became obvious that, in one of 1968's major upsets, 36-year-old Portland Attorney Robert W. Packwood had dislodged Democrat Wayne Morse, 68, from the Senate seat that he has occupied for 24 years. At week's end, Packwood held a thin 3,554 margin over Morse out of 814,418 votes cast. Morse will demand a recount. Unless it reverses the verdict, however, the brilliantly erratic Democrat-and onetime Republican-will retire to raise cattle on his Willamette Valley farm...
...Packwood, a three-term Oregon state representative, is characteristic of an ambitious type of Republican emerging at the grass roots. This month the G.O.P. in five states-California, New York, Delaware, Indiana and Iowa-gained control of both houses of legislatures that were formerly split. Particularly hard hit was California Democrat Jesse Unruh, who had hoped to use his post as speaker of the state's assembly as a springboard to the governorship in 1970 but now faces at least two years in the humbler and less visible job of minority leader...
...what could be the most startling reverse, Oregon's irascible Wayne Morse, 68, was running narrowly behind Republican Robert Packwood, 36, a three-term state legislator. The 24-year reign of Wayne has been one of the most remarkable in the Senate. He switched parties in mid-career and upset his own state Democrats by endorsing the 1966 Senate Republican candidate, having broken with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam. Oregonians have wearied of his maverick ways. In debate, Morse seemed a pale shadow of himself, while Packwood appeared to be the aggressive Morse of old. Packwood organized superbly...
...surprisingly, Oregon, which went for Nixon in 1960, was for him again. Nixon had 55 per cent to Humphrey's 37, and Wallace made a showing of 8 per cent. Senator Wayne Morse, long an outspoken dove, was behind in a close race with Robert Packwood. Morse seems to have hurt his chances badly in an eleventh-hour debate wiht Packwood...
...Dear Republican," begins the cheery letter to Oregon voters, "we have a winner. Bob Packwood is expected to beat Wayne Morse by 28,180 votes." The figure is an invention; the result may not be. Morse, 68, is in real trouble. Lawyer Robert Packwood, 36, the great-grandson of an Oregon pioneer, trailed badly when the race began. Last week he nosed ahead of Morse in a state wide poll commissioned by Portland's Oregonian. Only four-tenths of a percentage point separated the contenders; the outcome now probably hangs on the verdict of a sliver-thin...