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...Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
...last week's Republican gubernatorial primary, the Kansas-born, millionaire real estate developer was defeated by a bearded poet-fisherman-bush pilot and big-game guide named Jay Hammond...
...former president of the state senate, Hammond, 52, is mayor of the borough of Bristol Bay and lives in the Eskimo fishing village of South Naknek...
...decided underdog when he entered the race, Hammond stumped the state with State Senator Lowell Thomas Jr., 51, son of the radio commentator, who won the G.O.P. nomination for Lieutenant Governor. At a time when Alaska is in the throes of pipeline fever, their winning platform surprisingly calls for "careful scrutiny" of the state's rapid growth and "no development for development's sake." In November, Hammond will face Governor William A. Egan, who was easily renominated in last week's Democratic primary...
...John Hammond, at the Performance Center this week, is a top-flight musician who dabbles with all sorts of material--lots of bluesy stuff, especially--and, for some reason, never seems to have hit it big. However, the real cognoscenti know he's good, and his show sounds definitely worth catching...