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Some hardy Democratic perennials bloomed again at the polls. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Scoop Jackson of Washington, New Jersey's Harrison Williams, West Virginia's Robert Byrd and Mississippi's John Stennis all won easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated...
Jimmy Carter's troubleshooter, the wise and watchful country lawyer Charles Kirbo, sat motionless and listened. He had traveled from Atlanta to Washington to gather complaints and advice about the stalled campaign. There, in Scoop Jackson's office, he went before a dozen Senators-veterans like Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, and newcomers like Colorado's Gary Hart and Florida's Richard Stone. One of them thought that the gray and silent Kirbo looked like a possum, unmoving and wary. He had brought with him top Carter agents, Landon Butler...
...striking confirmation of the old adage, Udall was soon joined in his pro-issues crusade by strange bedfellow Scoop Jackson. In fact, virtually the entire Democratic establishment united on the "issues issue" condemning Carter either as an opportunistic crowd-pleaser who possessed no convictions regarding the particular issues raised by his competitors, or as a cunning political operator who cynically and deliberately obscured his stands so as not to alienate potential supporters...
...second half witnessed the same conservative play until its latter moments. With 14 minutes elapsed in the final stanza, Crystal Terry broke in on the Bates goalie and fired a shot which the net-minder deflected, only to watch Terry scoop in her own rebound...
Exotic Chemistry. But the devices that got the most attention were those in Viking 2's biology laboratory, the small (1 cu. ft.) package designed to detect life on Mars. This week the lander is to stretch out its robot arm, scoop up a sample of Martian soil and dump it into the minilab, which will repeat the three life-seeking experiments already performed by Viking 1. If the scoop works and all goes according to schedule, the results of these experiments could be in early next week...