Word: thurmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What will be so interesting to see in Helms's campaign--and in Thurmond's--is whether these emotional issues will be strong enough to stand...
...Both Thurmond and Helms face vigorous opponents in November. In North Carolina, Insurance Commissioner John Ingram is tackling Helms after an upset victory over Charlotte banker Luther Hodges in the Democratic primary. Ingram attacked Hodges as the darling of the special interests and is trying to do the same with Helms. He stresses his achievements as a progressive insurance commissioner--the elimination of age, sex and race discrimination in the state's insurance rates, and the investigation of insurance companies that stonewall on workman's compensation payments...
...SOUTH CAROLINA Charles "Pug" Ravenel '61 is posing the most serious threat to Thurmond in years. A native Charlestonian, Ravenel went from quarterbacking the Harvard football team to the Harvard Business School and on to Wall Street before returning home to run for governor. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1974 through an impressive media campaign that included an attack on the State Senate as a "den of thieves." But the State Supreme Court, in a highly questionable interpretation of the state residency requirement, took him off the ballot because he had not lived in South Carolina...
...Senate campaign, Ravenel has presented a detailed analysis of Thurmond's record and denounced it as lacking in compassion and hurting the state's economy, especially its working people...
Ingram and Ravenel are both mounting strong challenges, but neither is expected to win. Helms and Thurmond have effectively counterattacked in ways that reveal their political adroltness. Thurmond has rather skillfully made Ravenel out to be the puppet of special interests, though his own out-of-state contributions total more than Ravenel's. Helms has taken a different tack. He ridicules Ingram's obvious lack of sophistication and pictures him as naive and gullible--certainly not the kind of man North Carolinians should trust to hold down the fort against the Russians...