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Yarborough's conservative opponent, Bentsen, 49, differs from him in almost every way. Scion of a wealthy Rio Grande family, Bentsen is genteel but wooden. A former Congressman, he heads a $400 million insurance company and sits on the boards of a number of banks and an oil company. Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager...
...actually Lord Morgan, an aristocratic Englishman in search of big game in the forests of the New World, circa 1825. According to the laws of adventure fiction, a highborn Briton who wanders into the wilderness must undergo total metamorphosis before he can be let out. Lord Greystoke's scion, for instance, went into Africa as a cherubic infant and emerged as Tarzan of the Apes...
...Republican dream ticket has turned into a nightmare for party professionals and jeopardized a good chance for the Republicans to pick up a vital seat in their drive to win control of the Senate in 1970. Robert Taft Jr., 53, son of the late Senator and scion of the wealthy Cincinnati family, was to have run for Governor, with Incumbent Governor James Rhodes, 60, going for the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Stephen Young, 81. Instead, the two Republicans are locked in combat for the Senate nomination, with the only real campaign issue being Rhodes' integrity...
Prince Sirik Matak, 56, who helped Lon Nol depose Sihanouk, is the scion of the Sisowath branch of the royal family (Sihanouk is of the Norodom branch). A more colorful figure than Lon Nol, he could emerge as Cambodia's real new leader. Though he has practically made a career out of publicly opposing Sihanouk on major issues, his unquestioned ability has all but guaranteed him a succession of important government posts. With Lon Nol, he has long fought Sihanouk's policy of tolerating the Communist border presence, but he has struggled hardest to free the economy...
...usually try to brand those who start proxy fights as "raiders" or, in the epithet applied by Montgomery Ward executives to Louis Wolfson and associates, "financial pirates." Executives of Minneapolis-based Honeywell Inc. can hardly take that line against one discontented stockholder. He is Charles Pillsbury, 22-year-old scion of the family that founded the flour-milling Pillsbury Co. Far from seeking control of Honeywell, young Pillsbury, a senior in Latin American studies at Yale, is trying to convert the proxy fight into an instrument of protest against the Viet...