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Blum predicted that the pilot summer program next year will include several hundred students and should show "where the bugs are" in the three-term plan. 1500 undergraduates are expected to attend Yale during the summer term after 1975, Blum said...
...Richard Nixon won close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...
...summed up the political philosophy of North Carolina's new Republican Senator-elect, Jesse Helms, better than Barry Goldwater. "If you want to out-Goldwater Goldwater," the Arizona Senator told North Carolinians, "let him come." Helms, in his victory over three-term Congressman Nick Galifianakis for the seat now held by Democrat B. Everett Jordan, was also aided by a timely endorsement from President Nixon...
...race had all the tragedy of a civil war as it pitched two Rhode Island bluebloods with exemplary public service records in a fight for their political lives. Chafee, a youthful looking 51, full of vigor and drive, was a popular three-term former governor of Rhode Island, who lost the gubernatorial race in 1968 when he advocated a state income tax that his opponent later instituted. If he won this Senate race it would show that he was still a viable political candidate; if he lost he was politically dead. Pell, at 53 an old-line Democrat, fully realized...
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...