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Three-term Congressman Pierre ("Pete") Du Pont IV, 41, handily defeated incumbent Democratic Governor Sherman Tribbitt, 53, by a vote of 58% to 42%. Although a millionaire in his own right (he is a scion of Delaware's first family), Du Pont actually had campaign financial troubles: he refused to accept contributions of more than $100 and limited his spending to a modest...
...slender, aristocratic graduate of Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School, Du Pont stumped the state in a 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass that was driven by a college student. He preached fiscal integrity and charged Tribbitt with running the statehouse for partisan advantage. Du Pont told his audiences, "We have government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians." Du Pont promises to run a lean, efficient administration, but he faces the likelihood of a large deficit and the certainty of a low bond rating in the state of Delaware...
Shortly after the conference opened, TIME'S London bureau chief Herman Nickel talked with Rhodesia's Ian Smith at his delegation's headquarters in Geneva's Hotel du Rhone. Excerpts from the interview...
DELAWARE. Incumbent Sherman Tribbitt (D) v. Pierre Du Pont (R): the Du Fonts already control much of the state...
...moved from House to Senate (Iowa Democrat John Culver) and another became Governor of California (Democrat Jerry Brown). This year three are aiming at governorships (Delaware Republican Pierre S. du Pont IV, Illinois Republican James Thompson, West Virginia Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV). All three are favored. Seven seek Senate seats: Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis; Maryland's Democratic Congressman Paul Sarbanes; Michigan's Democratic Congressman Donald Riegle; Missouri's Republican Attorney General John Danforth; Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman H. John Heinz III; Texas' Republican Congressman Alan Steelman; Vermont's Democratic...