Politics: Not So Simple

The choice before the Democrats of Texas seemed simple enough. In a runoff primary for Governor they could select John Connally, 45, an avowed conservative. Or they could choose Don Yarborough, 36, a Houston lawyer who is about as liberal as Texans get. But in its final days the fight got so nasty that the selection no longer seemed simple.

Winging from town to town in a Cessna, Yarborough assailed Connally as ''a confessed lobbyist for Eastern oil and gas monopolies, nursed in the smoke-filled room and weaned on the big lie technique."...

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