Without even being allowed to campaign, a young Navy officer on duty more than 300 miles away last week walked off with the Republican nomination to Congress from Massachusetts' Sixth District. Lieut. Commander William H. Bates, U.S.N., was running for the seat his father held until his death in the Eastern Air Lines plane crash over Washington National Airport last November. Candidate Bates, 32, a football star at Brown and a Navy veteran of the Pacific, ran afoul of Navy regulations against politicking and had to stick to his job as ships'...
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