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...have been on the campaign trail from the start. Editors, writers and researchers supplemented the reportage by conducting numerous interviews in New York. Indeed, two of the fresh new faces on this week's cover have been familiar to our staff for some time. California's John Tunney dropped by last April for 90 minutes of coffee and conversation, while New York's James Buckley was quizzed on his views during lunch in early August...
Laurence Barrett, a onetime political reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, wrote the major story, viewing the election as a whole. Al Marlens, former managing editor of Newsday, did the personality profiles of Senators-Elect Tunney, Stevenson, Buckley and Brock, while B.J. Phillips, who used to work for the Washington Post, was responsible for the piece on six new Congressmen. Other articles were contributed by Ed Magnuson, who spent ten years on the Minneapolis Tribune before joining TIME; Keith Johnson, another political veteran of the Herald Tribune, as well as TIME'S Los Angeles and Washington bureaus...
...varying perception of voters in diverse regions. As the personality sketches on these and the following pages show, they also produced engaging winners who may be starting significant careers in the U.S. Senate: New York's James Buckley, Tennessee's William Brock, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III, California's John Tunney...
...suffered some severe setbacks. Incumbent Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan was re-elected with 55 per cent of the vote-much less than the 60 per cent-plus margin he had been expected to get. Despite intensive Administration efforts to capitalize on the San Jose rockthrowing incident, Democratic Rep. John Tunney defeated Republican topdancer George Murphy...
Democratic Rep. John Tunney, aided by the strong showing of gubernatorial candidate Jess Unruh, unseated Republican Sen. George Murphy. Tunney had been leading in the polls, but Republicans hoped the San Jose incident would turn the tide. Unruh ran stronger than expected against Ronald Reagan, winning 42 per cent of the vote...