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...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...
...City liberals instinctively dislike O'Connor, they have no one place to go this year. Many will probably vote for Rockefeller, and others, reluctantly, for O'Connor. FDR Jr., whose liberal credentials are not as strong as O'Connor's, brings to mind the remark (originally made about William Scranton) that he is not half the man his mother was. Everyone knows that Liberal Party boss Alex Rose picked him as the Party's best chance to keep third place in the state and Line C on the ballot for the next four years. (The Liberal Party always does much...
...FARREN, S.J. University of Scranton; Scranton, Penn...