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...farm policy that Opponents Breeding and Smith really come to grips. In the former Fifth District, Breeding is the three-term successor to liberal Republican Cliff Hope, an influential advocate of high federal farm supports. In the former Sixth District, Dole is the first-term successor to Republican Wint Smith, who loudly damned farm price supports as "regimentation...
When Birmingham writes about his alma mater, Dartmouth, he brings more passion to his description--and much less objectivity. He raves for pages about Hanover's snowy wastes and Dartmouth's hairy-chested masculinity. In the realm of education, Birmingham praises Dartmouth's "revolutionary" three-term plan (which hundreds of colleges have) and its abandonment of high school learning techniques (which thousands of colleges have...
Stewart Lee Udall, 40, Secretary of the Interior. Arizona's three-term Democratic Representative Udall is a man after Jack Kennedy's own heart: an aggressive, articulate liberal with shrewd political instincts and a talent for political maneuver. A husky six-footer with dark, close-cropped hair. Lawyer Udall comes from one of Arizona's first families. His grandfather, a Mormon missionary, migrated to Arizona by covered wagon, founded the town of St. Johns (pop. 1,310), where Stew Udall was born. Udall's father was a chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and three...
...three-term Senate veteran, Fulbright is a former Rhodes scholar, was president of the University of Arkansas, is the father of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship student-exchange program. An outspoken opponent of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, he was the lone Senator to vote in 1954 against providing McCarthy with additional investigating funds. For his pains, Fulbright won a sneering sobriquet from McCarthy: "Senator Half-bright." As a persistent critic of Eisenhower foreign policies, Liberal Fulbright's views coincide closely with Kennedy...
...happen in America, but it did," snapped Editor E. S. James's lead editorial in the Baptist Standard (circ. 361,116), the nation's largest religious weekly. "Puerto Rico is American soil." In Puerto Rico, three Roman Catholic bishops had declared it a sin to vote for a man opposed by the church. The man was three-term Gover nor Luis Muñoz Marin, up for re-election on the same day the continental U.S., but not Puerto Rico, votes in a presidential election for Nixon or Kennedy (see THE HEMISPHERE...