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Rolling a 75-mm. howitzer over the Statehouse lawn, Rhode Island National Guard artillerymen positioned it for a 19-round inaugural salute to their new governor. Then, gun poised, the guardsmen waited, joining in the speculation that gripped the tiny state on New Year's Day: whether the salute when fired would honor Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 49, declared the winner by the board of elections (TIME, Dec. 31), or Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 53, who had suddenly challenged Del Sesto's narrow triumph in the State Supreme Court...
...Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, 79, would replace Georgia's retired Walter George as the Senate's president pro tempore; Montana's able Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield, 53, was ready to step into the place of Kentucky's defeated Earle Clements as assistant majority leader; Rhode Island's ancient (89) Senator Theodore Francis Green would take over from Walter George as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Illinois' staunchly internationalist Thomas Gordon, 63, would move into the place of South Carolina's retired James P. Richards as head of the House Foreign...
Victorious in three campaigns for governor of Rhode Island, Democrat Dennis J. Roberts faced a new kind of threat last fall. Republican Challenger Christopher Del Sesto could entice heavily Italian-American Rhode Island with an Italian name. He was also a well-known, friendly ex-Democrat who had gagged ten years ago on Democratic bureaucracy. Last week, completing a count of absentee and shut-in ballots that has dragged on since Nov. 20, weary election supervisors finally confirmed Denny Roberts' fears. Winning by a slim 427 votes out of almost 390,000 cast, stocky, greying Chris Del Sesto...
...Sesto a Government accounting job in Washington, which Del Sesto used to finance his way through Georgetown University law school. After getting his degree, he returned to Providence, in 1941 became Governor (later U.S. Senator) J. Howard McGrath's finance director. When war came, he was appointed Rhode Island's price-control boss...
...decision in, Chris Del Sesto last week planned towards a double goal: molding a good administration and rebuilding Rhode Island's Republican Party. In the latter assignment he was receiving assistance from an unexpected quarter. Disheartened Denny Roberts took court action to have 5,602 tide-turning absentee and shut-in ballots disqualified. But a sizable number of Democrats were disgusted by his antics. Said one angrily: "Roberts has done to the party in minutes what the G.O.P has failed to do in years...