Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Oklahoma. "Basically I am a conservative," explains Republican Henry Bellmon, "but I am sure as hell not a John Bircher or an isolationist." His political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate...
Pennsylvania. To get into Congress in 1960, Republican Richard S. Schweiker had to buck G.O.P. pros. Now he has ousted two-term Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark. A prosperous tile manufacturer and a Schwenkfelder-a member of one of Pennsylvania's "plain" sects-Schweiker, 42, does not smoke, rarely...
Among the Turnovers. Even in those few districts where seats did change party hands, the results seemed to depend far more on individual personalities and local conditions than on broad national issues?Viet Nam, law and order, inflation, the Negro revolution and the white backlash. In Ohio, for example, Republican...
As the returns started coming in from the Northeast, the first incumbent to lose his seat was Connecticut Democrat Donald Irwin. Representing Fairfield County, Irwin was elected in 1958, defeated in 1960, elected again in 1964 and sent back to Congress by a slim margin in 1966. This time he...