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...Ronald Reagan was unopposed for renomination. He will now face Jess Unruh, a liberal Democrat who easily defeated Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a maverick and a hawkish conservative. In the Senate races, two challengers on the left were defeated when Republican Incumbent George Murphy and Democratic Congressman John Tunney won nomination...
...Both Tunney and his principal opponent, Congressman George Brown, vehemently opposed the war (see box opposite page). But Brown hit that issue from the beginning and won the active aid of antiwar student volunteers. How much they helped or hurt is uncertain. College-age campaign workers were more successful in a Democratic House primary in the Oakland-Berkeley area, where they worked for Ronald Dellums, a black member of Berkeley's city council. But Jeffery Cohelan, the incumbent whom Dellums beat, is himself an antiwar liberal, making the victory a dubious one for the campus activists...
From Los Angeles, TIME Bureau Chief Don Neff gives this impressionistic account of the California Democratic senatorial primary campaign and John Tunney's triumph...
TEETH. That's what you remember about John Tunney. He smiles-big, white, healthy, sparkling molars and incisors and canines. Surely they glow in the dark. Then comes that boyish face, blond hair and blue eyes, and the big frame, well over 6 feet, lanky with a little pot puffing up from too many gravied luncheons and dinners. But mainly he is arms and legs that might suddenly come unstrung one minute and collapse like an unravelable pretzel. With your eyes closed, the voice might be a Kennedy's-any of them, John or Robert or Edward...
...carried the ball, and he went a lot farther than anyone ever expected back in the winter days, when golden and toothy John Tunney seemed to have the sun to himself. After all, Big John's picture had been all over the newspapers, blood running from his nose and gasping for breath after diving 175 feet into the polluted Santa Barbara Channel to inspect the oil damage. Hey. the kids will dig that. How could he lose...