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...been one of the freest-spending campaigns in Missouri's history. Eventually, returns showed that Litton had won 45% of the vote. Former Governor Warren Hearnes, 53, trailed with 27%. In third place was Congressman James W. Symington, 48, the early favorite to take the nomination and thus earn the chance to succeed his father, retiring Senator Stuart Symington, 75, who has held the seat since...
...million. The money went into a blind trust. First elected to Congress from rural western Missouri in 1972, he was re-elected in a landslide and decided to go after a Senate seat this year. When the contest began, Litton was 25 points behind the favored Symington in opinion polls...
About Birch Bayh there is one lesson to be learned: he was another tragic victim--as Stuart Symington was in 1960--of the Edmund Muskie syndrome; acceptable to all, the first and rabid choice of almost none (excepting the Harvard people who worked...
...just a "publicity hound," grumbled Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. following the latest trouble with his pet Great Dane, C5. Three years ago the dog (which was named after the armed forces plane because he "grew like a military contract") chomped on the hand of Missouri Democrat James Symington. After an exile in his Indiana doghouse, C-5 finally returned to Washington, and last week Jacobs threw a welcoming party. Symington himself came by and, to show his good will, offered the dog some cheese. To show his good taste, C-5 bit Symington on the hand again. Said...
...there are few foreign affairs experts who are willing to advocate a ban on arms sales, so long as what Senator Stuart Symington calls "the rules of the game" remain unchanged. It may well be that the arms trade is, in fact, necessary to the existence of sovereign states. Who can say that they should not retain the option of military force to protect themselves? Welko Gasich, a vice president of Northrop Aircraft Corp., puts it bluntly: "Until we have a bona fide world police force, it's still Dodge City and everyone wants a rifle over his door." Considering...