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California, where moderate Democrat John Tunney is expected to win the seat currently occupied by conservative George Murphy...
CALIFORNIA. Gray-haired and raspy-voiced from a successful operation for throat cancer, oldtime Hoofer George Murphy, 68, is trying to dance out of the way of a strong challenge to his bid for a second Senate term by a Democrat named Tunney. If the Tunney were Gene, a contemporary, Murphy could worry less. But it is John. 36-year-old son of the former heavyweight champion, a three-term Congressman who looks, talks and acts like a somehow unaccounted-for Kennedy brother...
...Reagan country, Tunney has tried to neutralize the permissiveness tag that is automatically affixed to every liberal Democrat...
...Tunney has ridden at night in a police car and he demands that the men in blue be protected from would-be assassins, evoking a "Tunney-come-lately" gibe from Spiro Agnew. He also exploits California's rising rate of unemployment, as high as 15% in some job categories, tells laboring men who are satisfied with that to vote for George Murphy. He keeps a generous distance between himself and Reagan's Democratic opponent, Jess Unruh, who now appears certain to lose...
Murphy stresses "what is good about America," criticizes Tunney's opposition to a bill allowing FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, links his foe to radical-liberal causes and individuals. Still hawkish, Murphy assures his audiences: "The war is going great." Murphy's age is a handicap, as is his admission that he was on Technicolor Inc.'s payroll while serving in the Senate. Head to head, Tunney probably would win. Republicans hope Reagan's ample coattails will drag his old showbiz pal along...