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Playing David. He could not have picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
Died. Walter E. Alessandroni, 51, Pennsylvania's able attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement...
...Harold Stassen, 58, the G.O.P.'s perennial candidate for almost anything, hopped back on the treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party...
Discreet Hand. Scranton has been dodging trouble himself by avoiding any premature disclosure of his future plans. He has kept a deft, discreet hand in national Republican affairs-just enough to hold onto his credentials as a Republican to be reckoned with. He participated in formation of the Republican Coordinating Committee last year and has otherwise supported National Chairman Ray Bliss. While counseling amity between the party's "responsible conservatives" and "progressives" (a term he prefers over "moderate"), he has also taken the now mandatory slap at the "radical fringe." In the fall he campaigned in New Jersey...
...Most of Scranton's time since the 1964 election has been spent minding the Statehouse store in Harrisburg-and minding it well, despite a few tussles with the Democratic-controlled lower house. Scranton can claim credit for promoting considerable industrial expansion in a state that had been experiencing some economic distress. In a period when governmental deficits are common, he has moved Pennsylvania's budget well into the black. This record, like his secure power base at home, will be very comforting if he takes another run at the presidency...