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...congressional primary in Northern California's San Mateo County attracted national attention largely because Shirley Temple, who as a child was every moviegoer's lollipop, was in the race. But Mrs. Shirley Temple Black, 39, mother of three and as conservative as could be, was not a hit at the ballot box. She lost the Republican race to Attorney Paul N. McCloskey, a moderate, by 52,878 votes...
...called for a negotiated settlement of the Viet Nam war and gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops, he rejected the wording of San Francisco's Proposition P, which called for a unilateral, immediate pullout. The issue had lost 2 to 1 in San Francisco a week earlier, and San Mateo voters would undoubtedly have rejected it even more decisively had it been on their ballot...
...Conservative Republicans William Draper III, 39, and San Mateo County Sheriff Earl Whitmore, 49. Handsome Bill Draper delights small groups with his friendly politicking, while the sheriff comes across like John Wayne...
...Organization Democrats Roy Archibald, 47, a former San Mateo mayor, and Daniel Monaco, 45, a California state inheritance-tax appraiser, who may cancel each other out and cut into Keating's vote...
...aversion to pornography, big government, welfarism, crime, dope and Ho Chi Minh has thrust the gamut of national issues into the campaign along with such peninsular problems as high taxes, education and the noise from San Francisco's airport, which is in the midst of San Mateo County's most densely populated area. Shirley is the odds-on favorite to win at least a plurality and possibly the 50%-plus-one-vote tally needed for election without a runoff. Nonetheless, as her opponents slug it out, they remind voters that California has already elected former Actors Reagan...