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...political novices included a 70-year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah. All are conservative Republicans, and all unceremoniously ousted liberal Democratic Senators-including two three-termers-from their seats. But the Senate's only Conservative, James Buckley of New York, was swamped by a left-of-center Democrat. So were right-leaning Republicans in Maryland and Tennessee, and Nebraska elected its first Democratic Senator in four decades...
...members of the President's family of fine Fords do pretty much what they want and go pretty much where they choose. Steve Ford, 20, who wants to be a rancher when he graduates from California State Polytechnic University, is touring scenic backwaters of the Far West with his boyhood friend Kevin Kennedy in a 27-ft. motor home, undismayed by the fact that the bears may outnumber the voters in some of these districts. Last week Steve pulled up in front of the Home Cafe in Dupuyer, Mont. (pop. less than 100), and before his order of pancakes...
Smith's values are those of most of the whites in a land whose colonization was relatively recent. A second-generation Rhodesian and his nation's first native-born Prime Minister, he is the son of a Scottish butcher and cattle rancher who arrived in Rhodesia in 1898. Smith was raised southwest of Salisbury in the small farming and mining town of Selukwe (pop. 7,900 blacks, 517 whites). His father, he has said, "was one of the fairest men I have ever met, and that is the way he brought me up. He always told me that...
Fast Lip. Steiger, 45, is a New York-born Jew who headed west 28 years ago and worked successively as rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing-walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and-since 1967-U.S. Congressman. He frequently sports lizardskin cowboy boots, silver belt buckles and pearl-buttoned shirts. Endowed with the brashest and fastest lip in Arizona politics, he once angered fellow Congressmen by observing that many of them were usually too drunk to be trusted pushing a wheelbarrow. More recently, he made headlines by shooting two burros that he claimed attacked him on a neighbor's ranch near Prescott...
...discussion, the twelve different ethnic groups in the territory -eight black, one white and three of mixed race-settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for Namibian independence. A multiracial interim government-probably to be headed by Clemens Kapuuo, a Herero tribal chief, and Dirk Mudge, a white rancher-will draft a constitution, organize elections and oversee the transfer of power. The non-white majority at the conference had pressed for independence by next June 30, but in the end agreed to wait an extra 18 months in return for the kind of one-man, one-vote system...