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...slenderest of margins, South Dakotans handed Republican Karl Mundt, 60, a political prize they have not bestowed in 30 years: a third term in the Senate. Mundt encountered stern competition from onetime History Professor (Dakota Wesleyan University) and two-time Congressman George McGovern, 38, who banked on rural discontent this year to unseat Mundt...
Minnesota. Jaunty, fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, 49, is a child of the South Dakota dust bowl who cannot forget that New Deal relief programs saved the customers who saved his family's drugstore. Mastermind of Minnesota's potent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, erudite ex-Professor (political science) Humphrey first talked his way to the Senate in 1948. He can be counted on to lead his crusade for true-blue liberalism come recession, prosperity or the millennium...
Bitterest of the Republican defeats was Michigan, where articulate Michigan State Professor Paul Bagwell (TIME cover, Oct. 24) made his second try at ending twelve years of labor-dominated Democratic rule. Across his state. Bagwell did better than Dick Nixon-but not well enough to overcome the Wayne County (Detroit) lead of U.A.W.-backed Lieutenant Governor John Swainson, a personable and legless war veteran, who ardently defended the record of outgoing Governor G. Mennen Williams...
Instead, Robert G. McCloskey '88, professor of Government, moved that a Faculty committee be created to examine the question at greater length and report back to the Faculty "at an early date." Dean Bundy, who will appoint the committee, said its creation was approved by a 2 to 1 vote...
Among the speakers at the meeting were McCloskey, Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, Robert L. Wolff '36, professor of History, Franklin L. Ford, professor of History, Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, Frank H. Westheimer, professor of Chemistry, Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, and David Riesman 31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences...