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...MICHIGAN GOVERNOR 63% of the vote Romney (R) 1,024,000 Ferency (D) 677,000 U.S. SENATOR 63% of the vote Griffin (R) 931,000 Williams (D) 748,000 U.S. House (19): +4 Republicans...
...same, he says, "People used to ask 'What is a Ferency?' Now they're asking 'Who is Ferency? " Republican Governor George Romney, who thus could have safely sat out his campaign for a third term, nonetheless has been running harder than ever. In order to enhance his presidential prospects for 1968, Romney hopes not only to exceed his 380,000-vote plurality of 1964 but also to pull Republican Senator Robert Griffin to victory...
...might succeed on both counts. Griffin, 42, a five-term Congressman who was hardly better known than Ferency before Romney appointed him to the Senate seat vacated by the death last April of Democrat Pat McNamara, began as the decided underdog in the race against former six-term (1949-60) Governor "G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, 55. After a costly primary vic tory, however, Old Pro Williams found his campaign coffers somewhat depleted, was further slowed by a kidney-stone operation in August. For his part, Griffin manages to sound every bit as liberal as Soapy, and has proved particularly effective...
More are Lee White, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Feb. 26-28; George Romney, Governor of Michigan, March 13-15; Bayard Ruston, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, March 27-29; John V. Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, April 23-25; and Carl Sanders, Governor of Georgia...
...will at least go to Sacramento without obligations to the bosses and backers who hagride most professional politicians. He will have to show that a citizen-Governor can govern. That is not an impossible challenge. As Nixon said last week of Reagan and Michigan's G.O.P. Governor George Romney: "They are new. And they project the mystique of the future rather than the past...