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Oregon. Onetime State Representative Maurine Neuberger is the favorite to succeed her late husband, Dick Neuberger, in the Senate, although irascible Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who has long feuded with the Neubergers, is giving her minimal help. Her Republican opponent, ex-Governor Elmo Smith, is neither as well publicized nor as supercharged with corny slogans ("Join the Maurine Corps...
Winner by some 6,000 votes in a Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...
Since World War II, so many British governors have surrendered sovereignty over former colonies that the procedure has become an art form. In 24 hours last week, Sir Hugh Foot, last British Governor of Cyprus, conducted a midnight ceremony transferring power to the new Republic of Cyprus, held a farewell dress reception for diplomats and a garden leave-taking for 200 personal friends. Then, still resplendent in plumed hat and gold braid. ex-Governor Foot boarded Her Majesty's frigate Chichester and sailed over the horizon to a specially composed bagpipe lament entitled Sir Hugh's Farewell...
SECRETARY OF STATE: Dillon; New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller or ex-Governor Thomas E. Dewey; G.O.P. Keynoter Walter Judd of Minnesota...
Pacifying Guerrillas. For two years, New York's Democratic Party has been in a state of civil war, with the embattled regulars (Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, State Chairman Mike Prendergast) under heavy attack from such guerrillas as the reform liberals (headed by ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Thomas K. Finletter), disgruntled Negro groups (oriented toward Representative Adam Clayton Powell), and the traditionally anti-Tammany Liberal Party...