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...Doubt. Democratic candidates won in Kentucky and Florida, Republicans in Nevada, Utah and New Hampshire. In Oklahoma, Republican Senator Henry Bellmon appeared to have retained his seat by 3,100 votes, but the outcome was cast in doubt when his opponent, former Democratic Congressman Ed Edmondson, moved to invalidate the returns from Tulsa County, where Bellmon had piled up a majority of 21,000. Even more confused was the situation in North Dakota, where Veteran Republican Senator Milton Young, 76, was opposed by former Democratic Governor William L. Guy. Young was leading Guy by only 252 votes out of more...
...California environmentalist groups lost a bitter fight to stop construction of a dam on the Stanislaus River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 62-story-high structure was designed to prevent yearly flooding of the lower Stanislaus. Backers of the project cite other benefits like some 2.4 million acre-feet of irrigation water and enough nonpolluting hydroelectric power to supply a city of 200,000 people. The problem is that the dam will also destroy some nine miles of spectacular white water. An organization called Friends of the River, which was formed to fight the dam, persuasively argued that flood...
...Nevada, Michael O'Callaghan...
...voter. In New York, for example, the 12? would allow about $1.5 million (in his successful 1970 campaign, New York Senator James Buckley spent $1.1 million in the general election). The same limitations would apply to House candidates in the six-states that have only one Congressman (Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming). For House races in other states, candidates could spend no more than $70,000 in their primary- and general-election campaigns...
...obtrusive sense of present, constructed from the fast win and fast loss, the tension of a big money poker game, the green felt of a Reno crap table, a bowl of Fruit Loops for breakfast, flashes by with the same dreamy transcience as Colorado mountains, Utah salt flats, Nevada deserts, and California farms outside a car window...