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...Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker, is now a teetotaler. How did he happen to be the only Democrat to unseat a Republican Senator? One explanation: many Missouri farmers believed that in voting for Hennings they were slapping Harry Truman...
...campaigning hell-for-leather for his colleague, Senator Scott Lucas. To all good Democrats, the carefully creased, weary-looking Lucas was more than just another candidate. As majority leader of the Senate, he was a symbol of Democratic power. Republican ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, who was trying to unseat him, had a good chance of doing just that. Scott Lucas had to be saved...
...flair. The choice was enough to perk up the despondent Republicans. It seemed at least to even the delicate balance between conservative Gene Millikin, the Senate's firm right bower to Ohio's Bob Taft, and Fair Dealing Congressman John Carroll, the Democrats' choice to unseat...
...Council chamber at Lake Success-men in sport shirts, starched wives of delegates. When India's delegate, Sir Benegal Rau, called the Council to order, Russia's seat at the Council table was conspicuously empty. The Soviet Union was still boycotting the U.N. for its refusal to unseat China's Nationalist delegates in favor of the Chinese Communists...
...seven seats to win control, their best prospect was in Idaho, where Governor Charles A. Robins was expected to eliminate Glen Taylor. There was an even-money chance that Governor Jim Duff could beat Senate Majority Whip Francis Myers in Pennsylvania and that Illinois' Everett Dirksen could unseat Majority Leader Scott Lucas. Representative Richard Nixon might defeat the Democrats' Helen Douglas in California. If they could find the right candidates, the strategists had some hope of defeating New York's Lehman and Connecticut's Benton...