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...Johnson-lining Democrat, swept up 85% of the vote against Wayne Thiessen, a conservative Republican. Almost equally decisive were the victories of the Southern Democratic veterans? Georgia's Herman Talmadge, North Carolina's Sam Ervin and South Carolina's Ernest Hollings. Among the staunchest Democratic liberals, Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff won comfortably, while Birch Bayh overcame the Nixon trend in Indiana. Humphrey's New York victory did not faze Republican Jacob Javits, whose plurality exceeded 1,000,000. Among the easily elected conservative Republicans were Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, North Dakota's Milton Young, Colorado...
...first incumbent to lose his seat was Connecticut Democrat Donald Irwin. Representing Fairfield County, Irwin was elected in 1958, defeated in 1960, elected again in 1964 and sent back to Congress by a slim margin in 1966. This time he made things tougher for himself by calling Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff a "creep" for his Democratic convention attack on Chicago police enforcement. Irwin lost to Republican State Representative Lowell P. Weicker Jr., 37, a lawyer who managed to unify the district's liberal and conservative Republicans...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows musical on big business. At AGASSIZ, Radcliffe Yard...
...knowing what everyone else knows." Similarly, Dr. Richard Kenyon, an official of the American Chemical Society in Washington, reclaimed his set after two years' banishment. "If you are without it these days, you are a little too out of touch with the stream of modern life," he says. Abe Wollock, an associate professor of theater arts at U.C.L.A., insists that TV for the most part is scarcely an adult intellectual challenge. But he is also persuaded that "wisdom and knowledge have always come through the visual sense. When a man throws out his television, there...
Democrats are counted as leaders in nine more states. One is California, where liberal Democrat Alan Cranston is far ahead of conservative Republican Max Rafferty in a battle for the seat of Thomas Kuchel, a G.O.P. liberal. Another is Connecticut, though Abe Ribicoff is being pressed unexpectedly hard by Republican Edwin May. Republicans lead in another six Senate races, with comparatively easy victories forecast...