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It will be a clean race. "There'll be no mudslinging." says Barkley. The issues will be clear. Without undue emphasis on party labels. Cooper will campaign for the Eisenhower program and the need for his own vote in the Senate to carry it through. Barkley will bear down on unemployment in Kentucky. Each will trade heavily on his own immense popularity, and for many a Kentucky voter the choice will be difficult. In the words of a Penny-royalist," It'll be 'whittledycut' "—which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race.
— In unromantic fact the bluegrass is no bluer than the Danube. It is an intense green most of the year. When the grass is in bloom, a faint bluish haze can be detected over the meadows but only with the aid of a strong imagination and a frosty julep or two.
-f Kentucky produces almost two-thirds of the nation's distilled spirits, but, with 83 dry counties out of a total of 120, the state consumes only 1.4%. Once a year Kentuckians get outside help on their drinking statistics. In Louisville's Brown Hotel Bar on the eve of the 1954 Kentucky Derby, 1,750 mint juleps were downed, mostly by visitors who hardly knew a frosted glass from a frozen custard. # The others: Bachelors Richard Russell, Theodore Green, Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson: Widowers Allen Ellender, Hugh Butler and James Murray.