The Election: FACES IN THE NEW SENATE

Oregon. Succeeding her late husband, Dick Neuberger, Democrat Maurine B. Neuberger, 52, seems sure to follow his ultra-liberal line in the Senate. A phenomenal vote getter in her own right, trim, athletic Maurine spent two terms in the state legislature, is remembered with particular affection by Oregon housewives for overturning a state ban on colored margarine. Outspoken, she once advocated a woman President because "women are nicer than men, mostly."

Iowa. In his race for the Senate, Jack R. Miller, 44, got off to a bad start: since no Republican primary candidate won the...

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