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...scored a triumphal 50,000-vote primary upset over the Democrats' machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion. After the dinner, he charged-with some reason-that Lawrence's organization had "stalled" Democratic progress, and demanded-unsuccessfully-that he be given control...
...most stunning conservative victories last month was that of Lester Maddox last week in the runoff for the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Maddox's victory over ex-governor Ellis Arnall was caused partly by the SNCC-inspired Atlanta riots and Arnall's reluctance to campaign between the primary and the runoff. But it also confirmed suspicions resulting from the results of the 1964 Presidential election in Georgia. To the astonishment of most Democratic strategists, Goldwater captured Georgia's electoral votes. And the victory of Maddox, the red-neck who closed his restaurant rather than submit to the public accommodations provisions...
...seat held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor Wesley Powell. Thyng opposed civil rights legislation and foreign aid and insisted that increased conventional bombing of military targets in North Vietnam would halt Hanoi's capacity to fight -- and end the war, of course. The ground war in South Vietnam didn't interest him much. The decisive factors...
...George Romney convinced himself that he should run for President. He was saved from making the race in 1964 by a series of political setbacks in Michigan the preceding year: his state constitution was almost defeated, his tax program killed by a Republican legislature, and he was running behind ex-Governor Swainson in the polls. Now he must prove himself to conservative Republicans, who dislike the non-partisan tone of his earlier efforts and his refusal to support Barry Goldwater in 1964. He will almost certainly win reelection. The three Democrats who might have threatened Romney--Detroit's Mayor Jerome...
...fate of Romney's Presidential bid, then, depends heavily on what happens to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death this week of Senator Pat McNamara. Romney will probably appoint the already hand-picked Republican candidate, Congressman Robert Griffin. The fiercely contested Democratic primary between ex-Governor G. Mennen Williams and Mayor Cavanagh will probably help Griffin, and both Democratic candidates will have serious electoral weaknesses. Romney will certainly be out campaigning hard this fall to keep Griffin in the Senate--and to put a public relations man in the White House...