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...place. Dick, you remember, is the star from Swampscott who, as a senior, told the Crimson, "There's only one Harvard. You can't beat the name." Now Dick has seen how right he was, but he can still play football and walk in the shadows of the Hotel Taft. Whatever. And only last night, there were reported sightings of Carm Cozza walking through the Square at 3 a.m. singing "A Gypsy Cried...
Vulnerable Retinue. Publicly, however, Richard Nixon maintained a pose of pleasure at the results (see box, following page). He certainly could take satisfaction in the defeat of liberal Democratic Senators Albert Gore in Tennessee and Joseph Tydings in Maryland, and the election of Republicans Robert Taft Jr. in Ohio and Lowell Weicker Jr. in Connecticut. Most spectacularly, Nixon had read New York's liberal Republican Charles Goodell out of the G.O.P. and helped conservatism triumph in the person of James Buckley. Republican Governors Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan had won handily in the nation's two largest states...
...talk about your issue. The peace issue was very beneficial." Happily he ticked off the individual races. "In Connecticut, Weicker-I've talked with him-will vote like Dodd. With Buckley, there will be a 180° turnaround. The same with Brock in Tennessee and Bentsen in Texas. Taft? Well, it will be much better than with Young." Nixon made a morning-after list of Republican losers whose talents he wants to use in the Administration: it was headed by Clark MacGregor of Minnesota and George Bush of Texas. His Senate summary: "We gained a working majority...
...heartland, which is supposed to be Nixon country, withstood the President's campaigning. One of the few important Republican scores in the Midwest was the Ohio Senate race, in which Robert Taft Jr. eked out a narrow victory over Howard Metzenbaum. The seat presently belongs to Democrat Stephen Young. But in yet another example of ticket-splitting, Ohio elected Democrat John Gilligan to succeed a retiring Republican Governor...
Died. Raymond C. Hoiles, 91, president of the Freedom Newspapers chain with 20 dailies (combined circ.: over 500,000) in Florida. Ohio, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and California; in Santa Ana, Calif. So conservative that he refused to endorse Dwight Eisenhower or Robert A. Taft, Hoiles inveighed against anything even remotely socialistic, including tax-supported compulsory public education...