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Unlike New York, Pennsylvania has no state university, yet its pattern of higher education is also shifting. Last week Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton signed a bill making Philadelphia's 82-year-old Temple University, the nation's largest private university after N.Y.U., into a "state-related" university after the pattern of Penn State. In return for state funds, Temple will admit a minority of state-appointed trustees to its otherwise private board and accept Pennsylvania students at relatively low tuition rates...
...even the biggest-name politicians could shake the voters' "show-me" spirit. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton all campaigned for the Republican candidate in New Jersey's gubernatorial election-yet the Democratic incumbent piled up the biggest plurality in the state's history. Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy lined up behind Democrat Abe Beanie in New York City-yet in Lindsay's shadow their en comiums sounded as if they had come from the party manual. "Look at Hubert Humphrey," chortled House Republican...
...fired than in facing up to pressing statewide problems. Long-docile Democrats in Philadelphia chopped a tentacle off the "Octopus of Walnut Street," as their tired machine is unlovingly known, by electing a District Attorney on the Republican ticket. A Democrat surprised everybody by getting himself elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and Republicans did the same in Binghamton, N.Y., Waterbury and New Britain, Conn., and Akron, Ohio...
...York and other cities, argued Bliss, should provide forward impetus to our "efforts to strengthen the Republican position in metropolitan areas of the nation." He added: "If you have the right candidate, you can break through." That notion was vigorously seconded by Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton. "The adage that Republicans cannot win in the big cities," said he, "is now out the window...
...national aspirations of his own, and is traveling about the nation making inspirational speeches about party unity; many unforgiving Republicans are positively smacking their lips in anticipation of the revenge they will take on him for his defection in '64. In Miami, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton recently urged Republicans to isolate the "radical fringe," presumably meaning the John Birch Society. In Arizona, a syndicated columnist named Goldwater said that he thought the party might do better to exorcise its "left side...