Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...styles in the senatorial campaign when he said, "The Senate without Paul Douglas would be like show business without Jimmy Durante"?who, at 73, now uses Old Man Time as a theme song. To the delight of Republican audiences in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, outgoing Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton's wife Mary puffed plump cigars, promised to come back and finish the smoke?"regardless of how green I turn"?if they improved their 1962 vote totals. (They didn...
...effort to offset Shapp's lavishly financed campaign, two of the state's most popular Republicans-Governor William Scranton, who helped nominate Shafer as his successor, and Senator Hugh Scott-have marched up and down the Keystone State on behalf of the G.O.P. candidate. Shafer, doing much energetic footwork himself, has been concentrating on the Scranton administration's creditable record and Pennsylvania's prosperity, accuses Shapp of trying to buy the election. Shapp charges that the state's economy is, in fact, deteriorating, that public utilities get an unfair tax break and that Shafer...
...Decibel Gap. By contrast with Maverick Shapp, Yale-trained Attorney Shafer is a dutiful, if undistinguished, party pro; he served two terms as a state senator before running with William Scranton-who cannot succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts...
Both candidates are relying heavily on outside help. Last week Teddy Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey stumped for Shapp. Richard Nixon and New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits have spoken for Shafer, Scranton has scheduled 40 speeches, and Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has given him vigorous support. This week Bobby Kennedy will campaign for Shapp; Shafer will counter with Dwight Eisenhower, who will play host at Gettysburg to a reunion of Shafer's old PT boat squadron...
...armed-who overturned the Democratic Goliath, they now question whether the open-handed electronics tycoon is qualified to take over the state government. Cleveland-born Shapp has not been helped by his bray that "I know more about Pennsylvania than any other one man in the state." Neither Governor Scranton, whose family has been prominent in the state for four generations, nor his Lieutenant Governor makes any such claim. Besides, Shafer stands to inherit much of the immense residual popularity of the Scranton administration, one of the most popular and effectual that Pennsylvania has known in decades...