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...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...
...craggily handsome Stanford graduate and Korean War Marine hero, McCloskey tagged Shirley a superhawk and won a lot of points by her refusal to debate the issues with...
...McCloskey's cause was aided by an army of young volunteers who saturated the district with campaign literature and followed their leader's 18-hour-a-day campaign pace. While McCloskey 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...
...Republican Paul N. ("Pete") McCloskey, 40, crew-cut former Marine Korean War hero who talks like a liberal Democrat, is dovish on Viet...
Robert J. McCloskey, spokesman for the State Department, announced Rusk's decision at a noon press conference yesterday. He said that pressing affairs in Washington would make it impossible for the Secretary to make the trip. McCloskey did not indicate the nature of those pressing affairs...