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...prospects but are growing adept at raiding each other's territory for corporate game, often with the state's Governor leading the foray. Governor John McKeithen and a 17-man team of Louisiana bigwigs recently visited Pennsylvania for a fast sales pitch to 139 firms. Governor William Scranton, having enlisted 130,000 businessmen in a group to tout Pennsylvania, has ventured to such places as Detroit, Toronto and San Francisco...
...styles in the senatorial campaign when he said, "The Senate without Paul Douglas would be like show business without Jimmy Durante"?who, at 73, now uses Old Man Time as a theme song. To the delight of Republican audiences in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, outgoing Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton's wife Mary puffed plump cigars, promised to come back and finish the smoke?"regardless of how green I turn"?if they improved their 1962 vote totals. (They didn...
Freshmen's. Return. In Pennsylvania, moderate Republican Ray Shafer hand ily defeated spendthrift Millionaire Mil ton Shapp - and that, too, represented a victory for the incumbent regime, since Shafer had served for four years as Lieutenant Governor in the popular ad ministration of outgoing Governor Scranton. Indeed, Pennsylvania voters' reaffirmation was vigorous enough to regain Republican control of both houses of the legislature by a hair. In Maryland, even though Republican Ted Agnew came from behind to defeat Segregationist George Mahoney in the gubernatorial campaign, voters also seemed content with the status quo, re-electing Democrats...
...G.O.P.'s nine winning Governors. Arizona's Jack Williams and Nevada's Paul Laxalt stand close to Goldwater, while Idaho's Don Samuelson stands, if possible, to the right of Barry. Colorado's John Love, on the other hand, is more of the Scranton stripe while New Mexico's David Cargo and Oregon's Tom McCall would agree on most issues with Nelson Rockefeller or Jacob Javits...
...effort to offset Shapp's lavishly financed campaign, two of the state's most popular Republicans-Governor William Scranton, who helped nominate Shafer as his successor, and Senator Hugh Scott-have marched up and down the Keystone State on behalf of the G.O.P. candidate. Shafer, doing much energetic footwork himself, has been concentrating on the Scranton administration's creditable record and Pennsylvania's prosperity, accuses Shapp of trying to buy the election. Shapp charges that the state's economy is, in fact, deteriorating, that public utilities get an unfair tax break and that Shafer...