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Continuing his family's perfect winning streak, Senator Robert F. Kennedy scored an inconclusive victory over his two rivals in the Indiana primary--Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and Hoosier Governor Roger D. Branigin, the favorite son candidate...
...Roger D. Branigin took his native Hoosierism and made it his platform. On scores of billboards across the state, in blue with white letters, the Governor's advertisements proclaim, "Vote Indiana, Vote Branigin...
...newspapers, large ads tell "why my husband is a candidate for president of the United States" by Mrs. Branigin--in which she explains how Hoosiers will demean themselves if they vote for an outsider...
Hoosier Governor Roger D. Branigin's provincial "Indiana-for-Hoosiers" campaign seems also to be faltering; the Governor cancelled all remaining campaign dates this afternoon without explanation. Many of Branigin's powerful Democratic machine workers are defecting to the Kennedy camp...
...victory next Tuesday is Branigin's tightly controlled state party machine, which is allied with many of Indiana's labor leaders. If it runs at top speed, the popular Governor may outdistance both his rivals. But even if it performs only moderately well, it can garner enough votes to prevent either Kennedy or McCarthy from claiming anything significant in the results...