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...whose plurality did not shrink from the previous election. Hatfield was just too much for Democratic State Attorney General Robert Thornton, who never had a chance. But Hatfield missed another sort of chance: he gave only the most tepid support to a weak G.O.P. ticket mate, Senate Candidate Sig Unander, who did well in losing to Democrat Wayne Morse. If popular Mark Hatfield had gone all-out for Unander, he might have helped rid the U.S. Senate of its windiest member...
Republican Mark Hatfield was re-elected to the governorship over Robert Thornton, and Democrat Wayne Morse was re-elected as Senator over Sig Unander...
Oregon. The hold that windy Wayne Morse has on the voters of Oregon is one of the great puzzles in U.S. politics. Republican Sig Unander is making a hard run, but the puzzle probably will remain unsolved...
That same day, Republican Challenger Sigfrid ("Sig") Unander, 49, sat wearily in a Eugene hotel lobby, took off a shoe and displayed a steel arch support. "Take a look at the campaigner's best friend," he said. "I'm tired, and I've gained 15 pounds. It's those damned desserts they serve you before you get up to speak. You tell the lady sitting next to you that they're good, and she gets up and gets another...
Opposites. Wispy, oh-so-waspy Wayne Morse, 62, and big, cautious Sig Unander are as different as two men can be. Morse is a blazing liberal; Unander is a rock-solid economic conservative. Morse is a maverick-he was a Republican, then a self-styled Independent before turning Democrat in 1954. Unander is a party regular-the scion of a wealthy lumber family, he is a former state treasurer and G.O.P. state chairman, served on the Federal Maritime Board during the Eisenhower Administration. Morse got off to a late campaign start, is now running like the wind. Unander has been...