Hawaii: Island Sweep

Because of his turn-of-the-century conservatism and his great bulk (247 Ibs), Republican Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, 46, is devastatingly described as "a fat old young man." Running for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Oren Long, Dillingham never had a chance against Representative Daniel Inouye, 38, slum child, war hero, first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent, New Frontiersman ("To be President-Kennedy's rubber stamp is an honor") and by far Hawaii's top vote-getter. If there had been any doubt, it vanished when the Honolulu Advertiser, of which the Dillingham family owns a hefty 12%, astonished the islands by endorsing Inouye. Inouye won by better than 2 to 1, carrying with him Democrat John A. Burns, 53, former territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress, over Republican Governor William F. Quinn. Among the other winners in a Democratic sweep: Mrs. Helena Hale, 44, a niece of Dr. Ralph Bunche, who became Hawaii County chairman and the first woman to hold a top public office in the islands since Queen Liliuokalani.

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