TEXAS: Roundup Time

Certain that he heard the call of "the people," Texas' conservative Democratic Senator Price Daniel decided last spring to interrupt his term in Washington to run for governor, lifted himself by the coat collar, threw himself into the saddle and went thataway. Supporting him were a solid array of 1952 "Eisencrats," a phalanx of the oil-rich, and the more stable elements of the newly eclipsed machine of Governor Allan Shivers (TIME, May 14). Opposing him: a passel of hombres whose political tendencies are as diverse as the many species of badlands cactus,...

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