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...last summer George Wolfe and his wife sat down for a serious talk in their home in the suburbs of Lewiston, Idaho (pop. 15,000). Subject: the education of their seven children, aged 5 to 14. The Wolfes were worried: it was bad enough that daughter Sharon (12), when asked to name the continent she lived on, replied that she did not even know what a continent was; the rest of the children were not making much progress either. Besides, the Wolfes were concerned that most parents in their neighborhood seemed to be losing control over their children. "Take...
...LEWISTON (IDAHO) MORNING TRIBUNE...
...before he was born, his grandmother was arrested for picketing the white-supremacy movie "Birth of a Nation" when it was shown in Boston, where Worthy's late father, a doctor from a small Georgia town, had moved. Worthy graduated from Boston Latin School and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and in 1951 studied for a year in the field of adult education at the University of Oslo. Between Bates and Oslo, Worthy acted as a public relations assistant to A. Philip Randolph, President of the Sleeping Car Porters Union and now a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. During...
...Maine fell plainly on the Democrats. Democratic Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James C. Oliver lost his fight for Congressman from the industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert...
Muskie and Trafton were running neck and neck, the First and Third Congressional Districts looked safely Republican, but in the Second (Lewiston-Augusta) District, Frank M. Coffin, 36, Democratic state chairman, was given an even chance to become the first Democratic Congressman from Maine in 22 years...