NEVADA: Fractured Crystal

With control of the U.S. Senate (present count: 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, one vacancy) hinging on the outcome, both parties have applied steam-boiler pressure in recent months to push known vote getters into the most critical of this year's 32 senatorial contests. Last week the pressure from the Democratic boiler pushed Nevada's easygoing, cherubic Alan Bible, 46, elected in 1954 to fill the unexpired term of the late Pat McCarran, into a contest for which he had little taste: another Nevada Democratic primary campaign.

Bible, a hand-groomed favorite of the Senate Democratic...

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