51.   Sources told the Globe earlier this week that Governor Paul Cellucci and Lieutenant Governor Jane M. Swift had recruited Sullivan to challenge the senior senator.

52.   Still, a senior senator said Wednesday that he had heard that Marine Corps officials above Leberman may have been implicated in the wrongdoing.

53.   Stevens, the senior senator and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, is particularly noteworthy in this regard.

54.   The Cal Ripken of politics could be STROM THURMOND, the very senior senator from South Carolina and chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

55.   The group included two former ambassadors, Frank Wisner and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, now the senior Democratic senator from New York.

56.   The pro-tem, usually the most senior senator who has not held the job, also is in the line to succeed the governor.

57.   The president got conflicting counsel Friday from senior senators.

58.   The senior senator from North Carolina has made a career out of berating homosexuals and blocking federal AIDS funding.

59.   The senior senator from Texas would be honored to introduce him to the committee for starters.

60.   The senior senator from North Carolina, an arch conservative, has made a career out of berating homosexuals and blocking federal AIDS funding.