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...Died. Spessard L. Holland, 79, former Democratic Senator from Florida; in Bartow, Fla. After service as a state legislator and Governor, Holland went to the Senate in 1946. He was a member in good standing of Congress's Southern bloc until his retirement in 1970, but his constitutional amendment outlawing the poll tax in federal elections, ratified in 1964, was a victory for the civil rights movement...
...Republican House member from his state since the Reconstruction, is now in a tough primary battle with George Harrold Carswell, Nixon's rejected Supreme Court nominee. The winner's Democratic opponent will be chosen in a September primary. The election is for the seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
...recently became a hero and a martyr after the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court. Florida's Republican Senator Edward Gurney extolled the ex-judge as a "dream" candidate and "unbeatable" in the G.O.P.'s effort to take over the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
...Carswell announced yesterday that he had resigned from the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to seek the Republican nomination for the Senate seat of retiring Sen. Spessard Holland...
Complaining that the Administration was "trying to silence its critics," McGovern patronizingly absolved Westmoreland of blame, "because he is obviously doing exactly what he is told to do by his Commander in Chief." Florida Democrat Spessard Holland, one of the few non-doves on the floor during McGovern's tirade, took exception to that remark. "The Senator from Florida," said Holland, "does not think that General Westmoreland is a Charlie McCarthy, to come over here and tell the people of this country what someone else wants them to hear...