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...including Ann Arbor), Republicans ousted Democratic Freshman Weston Vivian, an engineering Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, by the simple expedient of recruiting a Ph.D. of their own (in speech), State Representative Marvin L. Esch, 39. In the Upper Peninsula, Republican Businessman Philip E. Ruppe bounced a fourth L.B.J. coattail product, Raymond Clevenger, despite frenetic federal pork-barreling on the latter's behalf?including a post office for microscopic Christmas, Mich, (pop. 120), which now foresees a future as a yuletide mailing center...
...Keating drew only 25 people, the former U.S. Attorney General pulled 2,000. In Buffalo, 100,000 turned out. Many were squealing teen-agers-but there were also throngs of voting-age women. In the background, a smooth, tough Kennedy machine worked like a greased piston. And the Johnson coattail helped. In upstate New York, where Republicans normally outvote Democrats two-to-one, Kennedy won half the votes and robbed Keating of a crucial 700,000-vote cushion he had counted on. Then in metropolitan Manhattan, Kennedy drop-hammered Keating with a 500,000 vote margin that Keating could never...
...York, in fact, makes it impossible to vote a straight ticket by pulling a single lever in a voting booth or marking a single X on a paper ballot to choose all candidates, instead requires that voters indicate each choice separately. So do 22 other states.* That makes coattail riding difficult, could mean the difference, for example, to Republican Senatorial Candidates Robert A. Taft in Ohio and George Murphy in California...
...Coattails. Though Barry had been a registered Republican in Democratic Arizona for a long time, his active political participation was little more than that of the average interested citizen. It was mostly as a civic duty that he ran in 1949 on a nonpartisan reform slate for the Phoenix city council. He won, helped set up a successful city-manager system and, among other things, was largely responsible for racial integration of the restaurant at the Phoenix airport. A year later, he managed the victorious gubernatorial campaign of his Republican friend Howard Pyle, and in 1952 he decided...
...York to offer a coattail to Republican Mayoralty Candidate Louis J. Lefkowitz - and to use a $100-a-plate Lefkowitz dinner as a forum for his views on the present Administration. But Lefkowitz could hardly consider the occasion an unqualified success: Ike praised both Republican Congressman Paul Fino, who is running for city council president, and former Assistant Secretary of Labor John Gilhooley, as men he had known and respected in Washington. But, said he. "I have not known Louis J. Lefkowitz very well." Following Ike to the speaker's stand. Senator Jacob Javits had to eliminate from...