RALPH YARBOROUGH dedicated himself to making new opportunities for better jobs. better education. and better health. And he has left a profound and salutary legacy. Because of his efforts. more people get an education under the GI bill of rights. more people recover from crippling disease. more Mexican Americans receive bilingual educations. more migrant workers have better housing and more opportunity. and there is less ignorance and poverty and misery in America. generally. His defeat in the Texas Democratic primaries last summer did not slacken his efforts in the least. Some Members in his circumstances might have felt that their work in the Senate was mostly donebut not RALPH YARBOROUGH.