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...complicate the Pennsylvania political landscape and the selection of the state's 182 delegates to the 1972 Democratic Convention. Shapp is thought to lean toward a Kennedy nomination, while Rizzo presumably favors Washington's more conservative Senator Henry Jackson. Rizzo will probably defeat his G.O.P. opponent, Thacher Longstreth, a former city councilman, so there is bound to be a nasty intraparty fight...
...Howard Longstreth Clark, 44, a lawyer and certified public accountant who joined the American Express Co. in 1945, was named to succeed retiring President Ralph T. Reed, 69. Reed will continue as a director and chairman of the executive committee. Clark, who was born in South Pasadena, Calif., worked his way through Stanford University as a waiter and gas station attendant, used an aunt's $100 graduation present to go to New York because it was "the place to get ahead." He got a job with Price, Waterhouse, accountants, took night-school courses until he passed his C.P.A. exams...
...Worst Beating. The Republican National Committee made a mighty effort for Candidate Longstreth. Among first string Republicans who said a good word for the candidate: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey (who spoke at a $100-a-plate Philadelphia G.O.P. dinner), National Chairman Leonard Hall, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators Edward Martin and James Duff, and Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck...
...nearly every speech, Longstreth talked about his wish to bring "Eisenhower Republicanism" to Philadelphia. But he was unable to make the President of the U.S. an issue in the local campaign. Philadelphians knew that they had been getting good government, and they knew the veteran Dilworth far better than they knew amateur Longstreth. The final count: 420,099 for Dilworth to 288,646 for Longstreth. Although Dilworth's margin was less than Adlai Stevenson's Philadelphia margin over Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, it was the worst beating a Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia had ever taken...
Although Dilworth is favored to win, Thach Longstreth feels that he has advanced the ball from the two-yard line up to somewhere near midfield. A good many others feel the same way. President Eisenhower, in a post-election White House meeting with Longstreth, said he needed no one to tell him what a fine candidate Longstreth would be-he could see for himself. Back in Philadelphia, Louis Sax was chortling: "If we don't beat Dilworth, we'll scare the hell...