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...addition to Chiofaro, Harvard placed two defensive players on the team. Half-back Tom Williamson and end Bob Hoff-man were the others chosen...
...sports events; his wife Peggy loves Lucy. George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan stick to news and public affairs. Nebraska's Governor Norbert Tiemann and Colorado's Governor John Love try to catch football and the most promising documentaries. So does Vermont's Philip Hoff, though he concludes that "most TV is simply trash, and I don't have the time." Washington's Governor Daniel Evans prefers the Bell Telephone Hour, I Spy and the public affairs programs. Tennessee's Governor Buford Ellington goes for pro football, Perry Como and Lawrence Welk...
...nine other U.S. Governors who made the 1965 Viet Nam tour with Romney, eight abruptly dismissed the brainwashing charge; the ninth. Wyoming's Clifford Hansen, was vacationing and could not be reached for comment. One of the Governors, Vermont Democrat Philip Hoff, called Romney's statement "outrageous, kind of stinking," adding: "Either he's a most naive man or he lacks judgment." Democratic National Chairman John M. Bailey declared that Romney had "insulted the integrity" of General William C. Westmoreland and former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge because "they were responsible for the briefings he received...
...Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox airily dismisses most of the C.E.D. recommendations, instead attributes the states' troubles to a yen by Washington "to take them over." But many Governors have long been pushing the sort of reforms proposed by the C.E.D. Says Vermont's Philip Hoff, a Democrat serving his third two-year term: "The states have forced the growth of centralized Federal Government because they have failed to meet their responsibilities...
...Governors admitted, however, that the Federal Government in most cases steps in only because state governments have neglected their responsibilities. "Frequently," observed Vermont's Philip Hoff, "the states which cry the loudest for tax sharing are those which have failed to come to grips with their own tax problems." Even while conceding past errors, the Governors agreed that the states are ready to play a stronger role in the federal system. Their prelude promised that in statehouses and on Capitol Hill, federal-state relations will be more closely scrutinized this year than they have been for a generation...