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...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...
...LAST LAMP BURNING by Gwyn Griffin. 512 pages. Putnam...
Horace admired the bay. Virgil composed his Georgics and chose to be buried there. "I pardon all," wrote Goethe, "who have lost their minds in Naples." Readers will pardon British Novelist Gwyn Griffin (A Significant Experience), who clearly lost his mind in Naples, and has here written a vast, violent novel that commandingly redeems his mania...
Plots & Gloats. Author Griffin prints his story on a huge and variegated back cloth as complex as the ancient, untidy city that it portrays. It recounts history, both ancient and modern, and includes a decayed family of vulpine, voracious aristocrats who are scram bling madly for possession of a disputed inheritance; an oily industrialist who is patiently plotting to marry his fatuous daughter to the family's weak-minded young heir; a bumbling, gentle pedant who is complacently gloating over a fortune to which he does not yet have legal title, and as lusty a collection of blackmailers, murderers...
What almost everyone overlooks is the fact that either candidate is likely to have a tough time beating his Republican opponent, Congressman Robert Griffin. Williams will suffer from his unearned reputation as the man who bankrupted the state, Cavanagh from commuters' resentment at the city income tax. Both candidates are apparently restraining themselves from attacking these weak spots, but if the hatred that really does exist between Fifties and Sixties Liberals becomes too intense, they might give Griffin the opening he will be all too ready...