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...political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate. Mindful that he overturned able Democratic Veteran Senator Mike Monroney with the argument that Monroney, 66, had lost touch with his grass roots, Rancher Bellmon is not likely to spend all his time in Washington...
Ironically, perhaps, it is just those regions of the country, the South, the Midwest, and the Rocky Mountain states, which have given Johnson his strongest support on Vietnam that stand to lose the most. Ten years from now the Montana rancher (who's voting for Wallace because he wants Hanoi H-bombed) will watch his daughter die in child-birth as he is flying her, in his little Cessna, to the hospital in Butte, several hundred miles away. In his grief, he will rail because there was no doctor closer, but he'll probably never make the connection...
...Hegemony. From the dry Western wheatfields has come a potent Republican challenger, former Governor Henry Bellmon, 46, a well-to-do Billings rancher who acts like a hayseed but in fact is the shrewdest political operator in the state. Bellmon built a vi able G.O.P. in Democratic Oklahoma, overcame a 4-to-l registration gap, and carried the state for Richard Nixon in 1960 and himself in 1962. A Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor...
Walter Beinecke Jr., 50, heir to a sizable chunk of his family's Sperry & Hutchison Green Stamp fortune and a successful real estate developer and cattle rancher in his own right, thinks he has a solution for old Nantucket's people problems. Beinecke's idea is to "trade up" the island by finding fewer people who will spend more money. "Instead of selling six postcards and two hot dogs," he says, "you have to sell a hotel room and a couple of sports coats...
...personal life to illustrate points in movies. Any discerning reader will pick up information on her friends, boy friends, ex-husbands (three), her 19-year-old daughter Gina, not to mention her feelings about other critics, which border on the unprintable. In her review of Hud, the footloose, amoral rancher played by Paul Newman, she berated her fellow reviewers for considering Hud a bad sort. To make the point that he was pretty typical, she compared him to her own father, who, she said, also rebelled against authority and committed adultery, yet remained pleasantly "democratic in the Western way that...