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Pennsylvania's William Scranton...
Tonight's guest: Pennsylvania's Governor-elect William Scranton...
...more, Nixon won a majority in only 14. The Bliss report put much of the blame on lackadaisical party organizations, urged a buildup of permanent local organizations with fulltime, paid staffs. In the 1962 elections, Republicans did much better in the cities. Pennsylvania's Governor-elect William Scranton got 43% of the votes in Philadelphia as against Nixon's 32% in 1960, and Michigan's Governor-elect George Romney won 33% in Detroit as against Nixon's 29%. In Bliss's own Ohio, Governor-elect Rhodes got 54.5% in Democratic Cleveland, which had given only...
...Pennsylvania's Representative William Scranton. 45, who was elected Governor over Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth by 470,000 votes. Scranton (TIME cover. Oct. 19), who matched Dilworth insult for insult in one of the most savage campaigns in recent U.S. history, cut deeply into the Democratic fortress of Philadelphia, won ordinarily Democratic Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) by 52,000 votes. With a Republican legislature to help him, plus patronage powers that will give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with...
...Schizophrenic State. Michigan's Romney denies any presidential pretensions. Yet whether he likes it or not-and he is not the sort to stay awake nights worrying about it-Romney will certainly be talked about, along with Rocky and Scranton. More important, he is an activist Republican whose views will certainly be a major influence upon the national Republican Party...