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...drawn votes from both parties and run up increasingly large winning margins (as high as 78%) in his congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic Attorney Maurice Dantin of Columbia and Independent Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, a black. Son of a retired public school principal, Cochran has been an achiever all his life: Eagle Scout, high school valedictorian, student body vice president at the University of Mississippi, honors graduate of the Ole Miss law school. Before running for Congress, he practiced law in Jackson. In the Senate, he hopes to land a seat...
During his six years in the Senate, Haskell did little to capture public attention. In 1976 he was one of the leading critics of Ford Campaign Manager Howard ("Bo") Callaway for trying to influence Government policies to benefit a Colorado ski area owned by Callaway's family. This year Haskell sponsored legislation that would have set up a new Government agency to regulate imports of sweeteners, and thus benefit Colorado's sugar beet growers by, in effect, raising domestic sugar prices...
...alai. Virginia nixed parimutuel betting on horse races, and Florida balked at allowing casinos along Miami Beach. More permissive was California's attitude toward smoking. Partly swayed by a campaign of $5.3 million by tobacco companies. Californians solidly rejected Proposition 5, which would have banned smoking in most public places. In Montana the drinking age was raised from 18 to 19, and in Michigan it jumped from...
Many other conditions have helped to reduce the parties' circumstances. The relentless attention of pollsters to the public mood means that candidates and officeholders receive their instructions directly from the people, rather than through the party apparatus. Impresarios of media-like White House Adviser Gerald Rafshoon-orchestrate campaigns without the party's help or intervention...
...Mississippi, voters finally eliminated from their state constitution a provision prohibiting anyone who engages in a duel from holding public office or voting. Also struck down in the tide of 20th century progress were requirements that the state librarian be a woman and that railroads be routed through a county seat if they run within three miles of the town...