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...state personnel commissioner, countered by noting that his Marine unit had handled the offshore recovery of a Gemini space shot. In the end, however. Beard won for far more prosaic reasons?the district had been redrawn to include 51,000 white, conservative voters, mostly from a Shelby County suburb appropriately named "Whitehaven...
Republican Candidate Fletcher Thompson, 47, despite his base in a middle-class Atlanta suburb, appeals to much the same constituency as Nunn. Three-Term Congressman Thompson is an unreconstructed conservative who opposes busing, liberal judges, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, Black Power and gun controls. Nunn was an early favorite but the two are now roughly even...
...grisly memories of the Manson killings. In August, Retired Insurance Broker Paul Corbett, his wife and sister-in-law were found dead, each shot in the back of the head with a .25-cal. gun, in the pantry of Corbett's $100,000 home in the fashionable Chicago suburb of Barrington Hills. A fourth victim, Corbett's stepdaughter, was dead in the blood-spattered kitchen, shot in the chest with a .30-cal. weapon. A month later Machine Designer Stephen Hawtree, his wife and teen-age son were executed in a similar fashion in the basement of their...
...McCarthy campaign in 1968 was that it attracted only these suburban types, and failed to reach out beyond them to urban America and its more earthy concerns. Because of this, George McGovern has always tried to identify himself more with Robert Kennedy, who could forge the alliance between the suburb and the city, than with McCarthy. That "unholy alliance" is the key to success for any significant left-wing movement in the mainstream of American politics, and since February, creating it has been McGovern's primary...
...November she will face Republican candidate Howard Miller and Boston City Councilman John J. Moakley, who bypassed the Democratic primary to run as an independent in the general election. Because the new district--which extends from Dover St. in Roxbury to Dover, an upper middle class suburb--is heavily Democratic. Miller should not be much of a threat. Moakley, who won last year's City Council race with 94,000 votes, is expected to be a dangerous challenger...