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...thousand of them packed the State Farm Show arena to hear Scranton take the oath of office and promise "a new era in Pennsylvania progress." Concentrating on the need for cooperation between parties, Scranton also said, "Don't tell me that Pennsylvania can't lick its problems, because I know it can. We still have the same God-given natural resources, the same advantages for commerce and industry, the same progressive spirit that brought us greatness in other ages. But these things must be tapped...
Waiting for the Strongholds. Some old enmities were forgotten in the spirit of the occasion. Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen Young, who four years ago refused to be escorted down the aisle by Frank Lausche, gritted his teeth and accompanied his re-elected colleague for the oath taking. The Senate erupted in applause when Arizona's Carl Hayden, 85, walked toward Vice President Lyndon Johnson to take the oath for the seventh time. There was more applause when Hawaii's Republican Hiram Fong draped a lei around the neck of his new colleague, Democrat Daniel Inouye...
With the exception of Nelson Rockefeller, most of those oath-taking Governors had at their sides first ladies who could be expected to make a statehouse into a home-and pick up a few votes on the side. Among them...
...speckled political career that included four terms in the House. Young was all but ignored by the party when he ran against supposedly unbeatable John Bricker in 1958-and beat him by 155,000 votes. Announcing that he would break tradition by not walking down the aisle for oath taking with his state's senior Senator, Young explained: ''If Senator Lausche supported me for election, it was a well-guarded secret...
...ministers took the oath of office last week beneath the Bundestag's plump, lead-grey German eagle, Adenauer lolled in a black leather chair, looking more than ever like a wily Sioux chieftain clad in a cutaway. Dapper, handsome Dr. Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democrats, sat perkily in a front-row seat. Pink-cheeked Dr. Erhard barely said good morning to Adenauer, and glanced casually through a newspaper during the Chancellor's brief speech...