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...were Smith," said one of her foes in next week's California llth Congressional District primary, "she would not be running for Congress." But it isn't, and she is, and Shirley Temple Black is in the midst of an increasingly sulfurous campaign that is giving San Mateo County's half-million people a colorful spectrum of choice...
...district, represented for 15 years by the late J. Arthur Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely by well-to-do, conservative-leaning commuters to San Francisco, nearby Stanford University exerts a liberalizing influence, and subdivisions have attracted a big influx of blue-collar workers...
...past, the Democrats have given up the district without much fight; this time they outnumber registered Republicans 118,000 to 98,000, and while San Mateo backed Goldwater against L.B.J. and Ronald Reagan against Pat Brown, it also voted in the Republican primaries for moderate George Christopher v. Reagan and Rockefeller v. Goldwater. Mrs. Black faces nine primary opponents, plus write-ins. The serious candidates...
...suburban San Mateo, Calif., Mrs. Charles Black is known as a busy housewife, civic worker and Republican fund raiser. To the rest of the world, of course, she will always be Shirley Temple, and when she cast her bonnet into the political ring last week there were the inevitable cracks about the curly-haired moppet boop-a-dooping into the U.S. Congress to the tune of On the Good Ship Lollipop. In fact, as the candidate said in no uncertain terms, "Little Shirley Temple is not running. Make it, Shirley Temple Black, Republican independent...
Died. J. (for Jesse) Arthur Younger, 74, eight-term G.O.P. Congressman from San Mateo County, Calif., a prosperous San Francisco savings and loan executive who became an early (1954) exponent of giving Cabinet status to big-city interests under an etymologically questionable but politically sensible "Department of Urbiculture," the conceptual forebear of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; of leukemia; in Washington...