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...Charles Ravenel, Democratic nominee for governor of South Carolina in 1974, and the U.S. Senate in 1978, is the first class marshal for the Class of 1961. response to the switch from Latin to Englishdiplomas. We protested becoming modern. Itwas a paean to liturgy...
...obscure businessmen to run state governments. A variety of millionaires won victories in this year's gubernatorial primaries: Democrats Robert Graham in Florida and Jake Butcher in Tennessee; Republicans William Clements in Texas and Jack Eckerd in Florida. "I am not a lawyer," boasts ex-Wall Streeter Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, who is running against veteran Republican Senator Strom Thurmond in South Carolina. Candidates who have never met a payroll, Ravenel argues, are not equipped to balance budgets. "I think we have a crisis of management in government. To solve public problems, we must energize the private sector and encourage...
Nonetheless, Ravenel easily won the Democratic nomination to oppose Thurmond. Ravenel attacks Thurmond for being ineffective at using his seniority in the Senate-charging that only seven of his 185 proposed bills have become law -and negative in his approach to legislation. Says Ravenel: "The pattern of Thurmond's positions has been to resist things like integration, things like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version...
...predominantly black Washington, D.C., and supported the appointment of a black federal judge in South Carolina. His oldest child, Nancy Moore, 7, attends an integrated school in Columbia, S.C. This has ensured that Thurmond will get some black votes. But most of them are expected to go to Ravenel...
Thurmond's willingness to change with the times helps keep him the front runner in the most recent polls, even though Ravenel has benefited from appearances on the hustings by some prominent out-of-staters: Jimmy Carter, his mother, his son Chip, and two Cabinet Secretaries. Vows Thurmond: "I'm gonna whup...