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...HAROLD FORD. A Tennessee state legislator and one of three brothers on the ballot in Memphis,* Ford, 29, became the first black elected to Congress from that state. He beat Kuykendall in a district that is 46% black by retaining about 16% of the white Democratic vote. Ford bluntly accused Kuykendall of being "the worst Congressman in the U.S." and repeatedly cited the incumbent's support of Nixon. Active in getting blacks to work together in the legislature, he is a strong supporter of liberal social legislation. Ford's father is a prominent Memphis undertaker and Ford...
...brother, John, 32, became a state senator and Emmit, 30, took over Harold's vacated statehouse seat, both without opposition...
...lone loser among the pro-impeachment Representatives was Republican Harold Froehlich, who lost to a Norbertine priest and history professor, Robert Cornell, 54, in a largely rural Wisconsin district where inflation was a top issue. The other Republicans who voted against Nixon all won, some by impressive margins. All of the anti-Nixon Democrats survived, including such Southerners as Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton. Committee Chairman Peter Rodino's margin in New Jersey over John Taliaferro was an overwhelming...
...PIRATE by HAROLD ROBBINS 408 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Harold Robbins likes to point out, there is often more in a Harold Robbins novel than mere venery and violence. He shrewdly blends in topical interest to create a sort of nonfiction fiction. The Carpetbaggers (1961) offered thinly disguised views of Howard Hughes in his prime. The Adventurers (1966) traced jet-set life with the likes of the late Aly Khan. This latest timely extravaganza is a picaresque about a financial wizard who might just be modeled on Abdlatif Al Hamad, the oil sheikdom of Kuwait's money manager...