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 required majority, the party's nomination had to be made by the state convention. But on the hustings, Roman Catholic Miller showed himself a fluent speaker and shrewd public relations man. An Air Force Reserve colonel trained in the Plans Section of SAC, Miller is a specialist in farm tax law, a tireless advocate of tax reform and economy in government.
Minnesota. Jaunty, fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, 49, is a child of the South Dakota dust bowl who cannot forget that New Deal relief programs saved the customers who saved his family's drugstore. Mastermind of Minnesota's potent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, erudite ex-Professor (political science) Humphrey first talked his way to the Senate in 1948. He can be counted on to lead his crusade for true-blue liberalism come recession, prosperity or the millennium.
Kentucky. A onetime ambassador to India and U.S. delegate to the U.N., Republican John Sherman Cooper, 59, has his stronghold in the eastern Kentucky of miners, moonshiners and McCoys. After an Ivy League education (Yale, Harvard Law), he spent 25 years paying off debts left by his politician father. In and out of the Senate since 1946, strapping Baptist Cooper is one of his party's most distinguished liberals, an ardent supporter of foreign aid and civil rights.
New Jersey. In 14 years in Congress, six of them in the Senate, spare, able Clifford P. Case, 56, has shown himself one of the most independent of Republican liberals. The scholarly son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Case is no gladhander, tends to neglect his political fences, and has repeatedly driven conservative New Jersey Republicans into open revolt by his egghead policies. Case's re-election reinforces his shaky position as his state's top Republican leader.
Delaware. Though he lost his first election at 21, middle-of-the-road Republican Caleb Boggs, 51, has never lost one since and as Delaware's Governor managed to coexist in cozy comfort with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. A campaign manager's dream—he comes from a family of small farmers, won five battle stars and the Croix de Guerre in World War II combat—affable Lawyer Boggs is said to know more Delawareans by first name than any other man in the state.
Massachusetts. With his Early American homeliness and diffident Yankee drawl, blueblooded Leverett Saltonstall, 68, strikes any New Englander as being "as comfortable as an old shoe." Carefully eschewing brilliance, Republican Saltonstall in his 16 years in the Senate has won the admiration even of Massachusetts Democrats for his solid performance on the Armed Services and Small Business Committees and for his unflagging drive to bring new industry into his state.