Word: republicanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alaska. Massachusetts-reared Maurice Robert ("Mike") Gravel, 38, has been in Alaska only since 1956, but he upset veteran Senator Ernest H. Gruening in a tough primary battle. Gruening's angry ensuing write-in campaign and a vigorous challenge from Republican Opponent Elmer E. Rasmuson made the general election a cliffhanger, but now Gravel, onetime speaker of the Alaska house, will have a chance to speak for his state in the Senate...
...After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
Florida. A native of Maine, Edward J. Gurney migrated to Florida in 1948, was later elected mayor of Winter Park, and, in 1962, a U.S. Representative. Now he becomes the first Republican since Reconstruction to be sent to the Senate from Florida. To defeat former Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Conservative Gurney ran on a record that includes votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that "expensive boondoggle," the war on poverty...
...popular liberal. A handsome former truck driver who entered politics when he became angry at the state Commerce Commission, Democrat Hughes was enlisted for the Senate race by Robert Kennedy. A Viet Nam dove and gun-control advocate in a hawkish, rifle-owning state, Hughes was hard pressed by Republican David Stanley, but lowans decided to send their Governor to Washington...
...Kansas. Republican Congressman Bob Dole, long a staunch conservative, has become more of a moderate this year in his race for Veteran Senator Frank Carlson's Republican seat. Author of a Food-for-Peace amendment that now sends U.S. farmers as technical advisers abroad, Nixon-back-er Dole easily beat out Democratic Candidate William I. Robinson, a Wichita lawyer. Kentucky. As chief executive officer of Jefferson County (Louisville), Republican Marlow W. Cook, 42, was prepared for advancement. His hard-line policy on Viet Nam and tough stand on riots appealed to Kentucky voters more than the moderately liberal philosophy...