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Huck Nelson was only seven when his father first took him down to the steps of the courthouse in Chester, S.C., to hear fiery segregationist Strom Thurmond give one of his tub-thumping speeches. Thurmond was waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there...
...other candidate. His campaign speeches before white groups make him sound more like a rich Delta plantation progeny than the spokesman for the civil and political rights of Mississippi blacks. Evers's conservative pabulum is almost what one would expect to hear from a George Wallace or a Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity to wipe out the nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret out the cheaters, etc. When Evers isn't talking like an arch-conservative, he's persuading Mississippians he can better fatten their wallets than...
...SOUTH CAROLINA Charles "Pug" Ravenel '61 is posing the most serious threat to Thurmond in years. A native Charlestonian, Ravenel went from quarterbacking the Harvard football team to the Harvard Business School and on to Wall Street before returning home to run for governor. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1974 through an impressive media campaign that included an attack on the State Senate as a "den of thieves." But the State Supreme Court, in a highly questionable interpretation of the state residency requirement, took him off the ballot because he had not lived in South Carolina...
...Senate campaign, Ravenel has presented a detailed analysis of Thurmond's record and denounced it as lacking in compassion and hurting the state's economy, especially its working people...
Ingram and Ravenel are both mounting strong challenges, but neither is expected to win. Helms and Thurmond have effectively counterattacked in ways that reveal their political adroltness. Thurmond has rather skillfully made Ravenel out to be the puppet of special interests, though his own out-of-state contributions total more than Ravenel's. Helms has taken a different tack. He ridicules Ingram's obvious lack of sophistication and pictures him as naive and gullible--certainly not the kind of man North Carolinians should trust to hold down the fort against the Russians...