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During his four years as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, Raymond Shafer stayed so dutifully on the sidelines that he was virtually a new face when he decided to run for outgoing Governor William Scranton's job. Buoyed by his heady victory last year, Republican Shafer lost no time rushing in where angels-and Scranton-had trod to their regret. As his administration's first major project, he chose revision of the state's antiquated constitution. Since the voters had already nixed six previous attempts (including one by Scranton) to change the 93-year-old constitution...
With his literary criticism and political essays, Mailer hit his stride as a phrase-maker; even his erstwhile debating opponent, William F. Buckley, calls him the most quotable writer of our time. Mailer dismissed Salinger as "the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school," said that Scranton's wheeler-dealers at the Republican convention "stood by idle wheels," and labelled Lyndon Johnson "the bully with an Air Force...
...Philadelphians doubt that Specter will win. Polls by Psephologist E. John Bucci, who predicted the gubernatorial victories of both William Scranton and Raymond Shafer, peg Specter as a 2-to-l favorite over any other candidate. Meanwhile, the Democrats, badly split after five years of lackluster leadership, face a furious primary dogfight...
Ironclad. His own Pennsylvania machine began to wheeze. Lawrence's hand-picked gubernatorial candidate, Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, was handily beaten by Republican William Scranton in 1962; his choice for the party's 1964 Senate nomination, Judge Michael Musmanno, was defeated in a primary by Genevieve Blatt, who in turn lost to Republican Hugh Scott. And this year, after another savage primary battle, Lawrence's organization candidate lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Millionaire Milton Shapp. One of the last of the ironclads, Lawrence buried his bad feelings and campaigned vigorously for Shapp...
...prairie state could long contain such an irresistible force. Eventually, Mrs. Nation's arrest record logged entries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Bayonne and Coney Island. The forces arrayed against her were formidable, and formidably unchivalrous. At the hands of defensive saloonkeepers, Carry suffered nearly as much damage as she dealt. One annoyed publican in Bangor, Me., knocked her down four times, and a gold breast pin was molded for the Topeka bartender's wife who slugged Carry...