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...former Alabama governor is scheduled to arrive at Logan Airport at 2:25 p.m. His plans include a motorcade to the Charlestown Navy Yard and a 5:30 p.m. rally on Boston Common. Wallace will leave for Scranton, Pa. immediately after the Common rally...
Evans is well aware that his role as sures him of no more than a transitory moment of glory. Pennsylvania's patrician ex-Governor William Scranton, however, is convinced that Evans' speech will make a more significant impact. Scranton, one of the Republicans whom Dan Evans admires most deeply, dropped him a note last week. "I bet him a buck that when he made his keynote speech there wouldn't be any big hoopla," recalled the Pennsylvanian. "I bet him that it would take the delegates a day?24 hours?to realize that he had much...
...green convertible in Wall Street. He still was not riding any bandwagon, but in Miami, at least, he got a surprise present: an endorsement from Florida Governor Claude Kirk-the first Southern Governor to support him to date. Then, Pennsylvania's influential former Governor Wil liam Scranton added his praise, calling Rocky "the only Republican whom young people widely support...
Apart from the Norfolk & Western, however, last week's special court ruling did at least clear away some legal complications surrounding the link of the Pennsy and Central into the nation's biggest rail system. The court overruled protests by the city of Scranton, Pa., and unsuccessful Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Candidate Milton Shapp that the merger itself would be detrimental. And it left untouched an ar rangement under which the Penn Central, if the ICC approves, would first lend $25 million to the beleaguered New Haven to keep it going; the Penn Central would ultimately acquire the New Haven...
...think I ever hesitated." Indeed, from the day of his inauguration, Shafer began plotting and plugging for reform. With his aides, he set up a special office wryly dubbed "Fort Courage" in the Penn-Harris Motor Inn near the capitol building in Harrisburg. He enlisted Scranton's help, as well as that of former Democratic Governor George M. Leader; he raised $50,000 to finance the campaign and began a fatiguing round of personal appearances. He especially emphasized constitutional reforms that would: 1) upgrade Pennsylvania's outmoded judicial system; 2) periodically reapportion the state legislature to give city...