Word: walkathon
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Lawton M. Chiles Jr., 44, Florida's self-styled "progressive conservative" Democratic Senator, won election four years ago after staging a 1,000-mile, cross-state walkathon. As a member of the "Class of 70," a small group of freshmen legislators bent on reforming the Senate, Chiles, a lawyer, decries the chamber's inefficiencies and has sponsored a "sunshine" bill that would open most congressional committee meetings and federal agency hearings to the public. "We're hidebound and hobbled," he says. "We're so far behind the state legislature of Florida in our decision-making capacity...