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...remains for both the Republican candidates to overcome the great, vote-getting name of Abe Ribicoff; he is favored to beat Seely-Brown, and he might well carry Dempsey along with him. In that sense, a story doing the Connecticut rounds is appropriate. Alsop, pulling a switch on Seely-Brown's potholder campaign, is passing out Band-Aids with his name imprinted on them; other candidates are passing out G.O.P. cookbooks. An elderly lady brewed a Republican stew, took it off the stove with a Seely-Brown potholder and badly burned herself. She put an Alsop Band...
...contenders in the two top races: Democrat Abe Ribicoff, 52, and Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54. running for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Prescott Bush; and Democratic Governor John Dempsey, 47, who is challenged by Republican John Alsop...
John & John. Against Democratic Governor Dempsey, a bluff veteran in Connecticut politics, Republican Alsop also has the problem of establishing his own image. Outside Connecticut, his name is more famed than Dempsey's; he is, after all, the brother of Pundits Joseph and Stewart Alsop. John makes the least of this. During one recent campaign trek through a supermarket, a lady gushed to him about how much she had enjoyed reading Stew's Saturday Evening Post piece-"My Brother Runs for Governor." Replied John dryly: "Wasn't it nice of him to write...
Refreshing as such techniques may be, there is some doubt about how many votes they may win. But Alsop is also campaigning on a serious state issue. He argues that Ribicoff, when Governor, and Dempsey increased state taxes by $122 million, even while increasing the state deficit by $744 million...
...Dempsey cites a string of achievements in education, job retraining, highways, and attracting nuclear research industries, calls his opponent's charges "Alsop's Fables." Alsop's retort: fabled Fabler Aesop was put to death by the citizens of Delphi for refusing to distribute money to them -because he found them grasping and greedy...