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...performance is genuine. But it is also calculated to enrage the Republican candidate, to shatter the armored suit of imperturbability that has frustrated Dilworth as few things have before. In open debate, U.S. Representative William Scranton permits a thin smile to flicker across his face while his opponent heaps on abuse. Then he rises to reply-and that reply, despite its cool, deliberate cadence is whiplash in its bitterness against Dilworth. "We have got graft and corruption." he charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
...political fettle. He and Jackie contributed two votes toward an avalanche victory in Massachusetts for Democratic Senate Candidate Teddy Kennedy. Then he flew to Harrisburg to speak-principally for Philadelphia's ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, who is engaged in a bitter fight for Governor against Republican Representative William Scranton...
...committeemen unanimously approved a new statement of party principle drawn up by congressional Republicans (TIME. June 15), expect it to provide an effective campaign platform. The G.O.P.'s highest hopes centered on the possibility of Republicans unseating Democratic Governors in four key states: Michigan (George Romney), Pennsylvania (William Scranton). Ohio (James Rhodes) and California (Richard Nixon). ''Holding a Governor's office gives you a key to basic statewide strength." said one committeeman. There was also talk of new vigor in the committee itself. Said a Midwest committeeman: "The oldtimers are finally fading. At each meeting...
...G.O.P. prospect, has been hobbled by the fact that he is beginning to sound to many like a broken record, and by the party pros' conviction that he is simply too conservative to win a national election. Such dark-horse possibilities as Romney and Pennsylvania's William Scranton have yet to prove themselves in their home states...