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This year's gubernatorial contest conforms to the Massachusetts norm, but Foster Furcolo emerges as a better risk than his Republican opponent Sumner G. Whittier. Furcolo's program, while not remarkable, is generally constructive by comparison with that of his Republican rival. He promises to use his experience in Federal government to obtain a "fair share" of grant-in-aid funds for highways and schools in a state that is traditionally short-changed in government spending. Furcolo has also proposed the establishment of a network of regional colleges, a state scholarship program, a new medical and dental college, increased...
...spent four years campaigning for this election, attending an estimated 295 breakfasts, 1,150 luncheons, and 3,695 dinners, or two and a half dinners a day. At the same time, his Nixon-like campaign oratory has bristled with frequent free-swinging statements, such as his recent attack on Furcolo as the "most pious fraud ever to appear on a platform in Massachusetts...
...motorcycle policeman raced his engine and moved menacingly toward the mob. "They used to use horses in the old days," shouted a greyhaired man with a Furcolo button...
...plane rumbled up to the crowd, which shrank back respectfully. Politicians and party workers raced through the crowd to get to the gangway. The youthful crowd began to shout section by section, "Wellesley for Adlai!" and "M.I.T. for Adlai!", then "B.U. for Adlai!" As the shouts continued, the elderly Furcolo supporter muttered, "Can anyone here vote...
Adlai stood gingerly on the temporary stand and said, "The only thing as shaky as this is the Republican platform." He thanked the crowd for its hospitality and atempted to reach his car behind a cordon of state troopers, as party workers screamed, "Foster: What happened to Furcolo...