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Like other Republican liberals he has never been an organization man. Not that he has contempt for professionals: he favors "the old pros" like Ohio's Bliss ("he's done quite a job") for the leadership of the National Committee. But he feels that theirs is a service function, "not a policy making one," and policy is the area he obviously prefers. He enjoys the Senate less as a legislative factory than as a forum where he can say what he believes and be heard...
...Women on the Warpath). Undismayed, Evans ran a tough campaign with emphasis on his earnest and considerable intelligence and a progressive brand of Republicanism. Though the pros counted him out early in the campaign, he pulled ahead and beat Christensen...
Toeless & Barefoot. In the pros, extra points and short field goals are supposed to be automatic. Not this season...
...weak Columbia and barely managed to squeak past Cornell last week 23 to 21. Dartmouth's record is blemished by a 37-7 loss to Princeton, but the team has improved markedly since that humiliation. The Indians whipped Brown, 24 to 14, and last week looked like pros clobbering Harvard...
Most of the pilots were pros-airline captains, crop dusters, Air Force officers-shooting at $45,000 in prize money for the nine events. The rest were out for kicks. "I know it sounds ridiculous, but my bathtub at home is bigger than this plane," sighed Clyde Parsons, a 215-lb. California rancher who won a midget-class race by averaging 147 m.p.h. around a 21-mile course in a plane he had painstakingly built in his own garage...