Among the elected delegates conspicuously missing from the Democratic National Convention: Estes Kefauver, 56, two-term Senator from Tennessee, two-time (1952, 1956) presidential hopeful and the convention's 1956 choice (by 166½ votes over Jack Kennedy) for the vice-presidency. The Keef's explanation: he is running hard against Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor for renomination in Tennessee's Democratic primary, just three weeks hence, and "I'm left with 55 counties [out of 95] yet to visit." More explicit explanation: "Tip Taylor is a fire-and-brimstone segregationist, and," says a Kefauver pal in Los Angeles, "all that Estes needs to lose for sure is to be...
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