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...Cover) The Democratic candidate for Gover nor of Pennsylvania is a proudly emotional man. His right fist punches the air, a forefinger lashes out, his face flushes furiously beneath his silver hair. Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth. all atremble, stammers slightly and the savage words about his opponent spill out: "My family on both sides were here long before those robber barons of his showed up. His family sold out their interests in Lackawanna County and then moved out their money . . . This man who claims to be a gentleman . . . this Little Lord Fauntleroy . . . this Ivy League Dickie Nixon...
...defenders are Democratic Gover nor Steve McNichols, 48, and Democratic Senator John Carroll, 61. The challengers are John Love, 45, and Representative Peter Dominick, 47, who, if nothing else, make one of the most virile-looking pairs of candidates in the U.S. this year. Love, a Colorado Springs lawyer, was a political unknown until his G.O.P. primary victory over an old party wheelhorse. Dominick, a highly articulate Yaleman, is just finishing his first term in Congress...
...robbed the smokehouse where all the meat was, and the others got mad and they killed him. That was the end of that Russian business." Byrd heads back down a bridle path, the Shoreham's sandy-colored brick looming above the trees. "When I was Gover nor they asked me if Winston Churchill could come down and visit. He wanted to see the battlefields. The only trouble was that when he got there, they told me he drank a quart of brandy a day. It was strict Prohibition, and I never had al lowed any in the mansion...
...lead editorial in the Baptist Standard (circ. 361,116), the nation's largest religious weekly. "Puerto Rico is American soil." In Puerto Rico, three Roman Catholic bishops had declared it a sin to vote for a man opposed by the church. The man was three-term Gover nor Luis Muñoz Marin, up for re-election on the same day the continental U.S., but not Puerto Rico, votes in a presidential election for Nixon or Kennedy (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Following up a fast trip to Jewish resort hotels in New York's Catskill Moun tains, where he won strong applause from mainly Democratic audiences, Lodge made a tour of New York beaches with Gover nor Nelson Rockefeller, and proved that the G.O.P. politicians who had considered Patrician Lodge too snooty to appeal to plebeian voters didn't know their man. Recognized by beachgoers as the strapping, handsome guy they had seen battling the Russians in televised United Nations debates, Lodge had a great day. At Long Island's Jones Beach, he kissed his first baby...