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...Mondale becomes a leading candidate to succeed Carter; no fewer than 13 Vice Presidents have moved up to the White House. The title of heir presumptive is a traditional one for Vice Presidents; even Spiro Agnew in the wake of the Nixon landslide of '72 was so regarded. Mondale has a more substantial claim to the title than many of his predecessors. Only two years ago he abandoned his own presidential ambitions because, he joked, in straw votes he was running behind even "don't know." Now he has a national constituency. He was unfamiliar to most voters...
...wrested from Albert Gore in 1970. Sasser backed Jimmy Carter for the presidential nomination; when he won it, Sasser's chances improved markedly, since Carter quickly established an enormous lead in Tennessee. Brock still led narrowly in the polls when Sasser attacked his failure to disclose his finances; heir to a candy fortune, Brock was described by Sasser as "the candy man from Lookout Mountain." Fighting back, Brock tried to link Sasser to miniscandals in the administration of Governor Ray Blanton, but the ploy flopped...
Early on, Republican Congressman John Heinz seemed to be in something of a pickle. His bid for retiring Minority Leader Hugh Scott's Senate seat was hurt by disclosures of illegal Gulf Oil contributions to one of his House races. To remedy that, the heir to a "57 Varieties" fortune unleashed an avalanche of greenbacks-mostly his own. It was sufficient to bury Democratic Congressman William Green, despite Green's support from organized labor and the powerful big-city machines. Heinz's campaign outlay (well over $2 million) was the largest sum spent on a Senate race...
...described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated again by Democrat Stephen L. Neal, 42, an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune...
Despite her tendency to glower, Queen Victoria was not by any means a "puritanical old she-dragon breathing fire and brimstone." Or so says Prince Charles, 27, defending his great-great-great-grandmum in next month's issue of the British literary magazine Books and Bookmen. The heir apparent claims that Victoria was greatly misunderstood because of her famous judgment: "We are not amused." Actually, she was a "charming character" who "adored" a good laugh, says the prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria...