One lesson of South Dakota's Republican primary last week was that the race goes to him who campaigns for it. Chubby Chan Gurney, one of the few Midwest Senators who early saw beyond isolationism, had served two terms and saw no reason why he wouldn't be re-elected for a third. He stayed in Washington.
His opponent, Representative Francis Case, Methodist minister's son and onetime country editor, left his duties in Washington, covered the state in a gas-station-and-drugstore campaign. Case was for economy first, last & always—including cuts in foreign aid and military preparedness. To Case's invitation...
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