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...state senate, clinched the governorship in a runoff election. Gary ran second of 16 candidates in last month's primary, but came from behind to beat fire-breathing William Coe. Biggest upset, however, was Oklahoma's choice for lieutenant governor: Cowboy Pink Williams, 62, a rancher (1,100 acres) who virtually rode into office on a three-letter word* banned from the mails as obscene. Last summer Williams got embroiled with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured a donkey kicking "cattlemen who voted for Ike." He cashed in on the publicity, legally changed...
When she was appointed to the U.S. Senate two months ago to succeed the late Dwight Griswold (TIME, April 26), Nebraska Rancher Eva Bowring adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ride the fence awhile until I find where the gates are." Last week Senator Bowring found a gate and rode through at full gallop...
...Said Rancher Bowring: "In the long run, rigid price supports take from the farmer more than he receives. They encourage him to deplete his soil. They saddle the markets with surpluses which give him no opportunity to realize full parity. They destroy the normal relationship of feed and livestock prices. They encourage the development of competitive synthetics . . . They place farmers in such a position that they lose much of their freedom to make management decisions...
...Sheriff. The next afternoon, Sheriff Mason Meeks heard that Wilson was missing. Only a few hours earlier, a rancher had told the sheriff of a strange automobile which had stood on his fence line the afternoon before. A slip on the steering column showed that the car was registered in the name of Tom Holland...
...retired, to be Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. ¶ Welcomed Nebraska's new Senator, Mrs. Eva Bowring (TIME, April 26) to Washington with a discussion of the relative merits of single-barrel (Ike's choice) and double-barrel shotguns (Mrs. Bow-ring's). The President, said Rancher Bowring, "made a Sandhiller feel right at home. He grows...