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...served two terms in the legislature, the second as the house speaker, and went on to Washington and the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was a hardworking but undistinguished one-termer. In 1946 Adams ran for governor of New Hampshire and lost by only 157 votes to Incumbent Republican Charles Dale. Two years later, Adams won easily over another candidate...
...prison riots of the last year and a half, when thousands of convicts in 35 prisons revolted, sometimes seized guards as hostages, and demanded better food and living conditions. That is what happens in Cell Block 11 of the unidentified prison in question. The convicts, led by a long-termer (Neville Brand), present their demands to a state mediator. He arrogantly rejects them. The riot explodes into other cell blocks. The prisoners run berserk in a thoroughly frightening scene of rage in the mass. In the end, the governor signs the prisoners' petition. The rioters disband. The pressure...
...Even before the Senate met, Southern Democrats showed their muscle. In the caucus to elect a new majority leader, they rejected Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who was backed by outnumbered and plaintive Fair Dealers; the caucus elected Arizona's Ernest McFarland, an amiable, inconspicuous second-termer who consistently breaks with the Fair Deal on civil rights. For the job of whip the caucus picked Texas' Lyndon Johnson, chairman of the Armed Services Preparedness subcommittee, who defies the Administration just as regularly on civil rights, labor, tidelands...
When the count of the new House of Representatives was completed last week, seven-termer Bertrand Gearhart was at the bottom of the wreckage of 75 Republican seats. He was soundly beaten by a man who had never before run for public office: tall, 47-year-old Cecil White, a cotton rancher who campaigned by radio and in his small airplane...
JAMES NOLAND, 28, is a small but energetic World War II veteran of Bloomington, Ind. He rallied coal miners and other labor support against five-termer Gerald Landis, who voted for the Taft-Hartley law and who was in line, if elected, to become chairman of the Labor Committee. The Democratic gain in Indiana: five seats...