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...fact that it was well publicized and that there were plenty of Romney-for-Governor buttons available in Bloomfield Hills the next day only proves that his supporters recognized more clearly than he did how surely his actions for the past three years had been pointing toward the Governorship...
...otherwise accurate and fine report. Tuesday's CRIMSON seriously misquoted Monday evening's Young Democrats' speaker, Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., '37. In answer to a question concerning whether Sen. Jacob Javits would seek the New York governorship. Mr. Roosevelt is quoted in your story as replying. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor, so that he could be top dog, just as Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany...
...have worked uneasily with Romney, but the Fifties Liberals have not been able to adjust successfully to the Romney appeal. They have a hard time realizing that state elections are no longer automatically theirs, and that their tactics (which they tend to confuse with principles) failed to win the governorship...
Hughes gamely announced that he would try instead to introduce a sales tax, the remedy advocated by Wayne Dumont, his Republican rival for the governorship. "That," Hughes admitted, "would have to be a bipartisan effort." If that also fails, the nation's most heavily industrialized state will be unable to provide college space for several thousand new high school graduates or treat more than 1,000 retarded children now awaiting state care. It will have to defer badly needed highway construction, and deny the financial aid that its two major railroads need to maintain commuter service...
...primary against Senator Harry F. ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, appointed last fall as interim successor to his aging father. An eloquent Alexandria attorney and former Rhodes Scholar, Boothe, 58, won 45% of the Old Dominion's Democratic primary vote in an unsuccessful 1961 try for the lieutenant-governorship, in 1964 supported Lyndon Johnson, while the Byrds followed a policy of "golden silence." Harry Jr.'s situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other Senate seat, held for two decades by Byrd Man A. (for Absolom) Willis...