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...chances are that Mahoney will be defeated in November by Republican moderate Spiro Agnew since large numbers of Democrats will not support a "backlash" candidate. But in New Hampshire, retired Air Force General Harrison Thyng, the most patent right-winger of the lot, has a good chance to capture the seat held by New Hampshire's first Democratic Senator in decades, Thomas MacIntyre. Thyng, who quit the Air Force to run in the Republican primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor...
When the votes began to roll in on election night and it appeared Mahoney would win by a landslide, someone at Sickles campaign headquarters started circulating a Democrats for Spiro T. Agnew (the Republican candidate) petition. After the results of the primary had been verified, the movement grew, and Democrats began to desert the party in force. Two of Baltimore's most powerful union leaders declared their support of Pressman the Independent. (The union leaders had contributed heavily to the Sickles primary campaign fund while the rank-and-file membership voted overwhelmingly for Mahoney and will probably do so again...
...long run, would be a serious loss for his party. The bitterly fought contest so severely splintered Maryland Democrats that even token unity would be hard to reconstruct in the foreseeable future. The real winner in all likelihood would thus be the Republican candidate for Governor, Spiro T. Agnew, 47, an even-tempered moderate who has served ably as Baltimore County Executive. Agnew is now a heavy favorite to win in November...
What all this has produced was summed up by Philip Spiro, a New York City Knights leader, after an outing with the Masons: "Some of us were looking for them to have horns, but we found that they were just people." Adds Father John J. Mulroy, director of the Atlanta Archdiocese Commission of Religious Unity: "The church is moving out of the ghetto. Where the whole process is going, we really don't know -but it is obvious that a lot of revamping is going to take place in lay organizations." More than a few Catholic priests and laymen...
...Spiro condemned "our hesitancy, our equivocations, our--at least apparent--hypocrisy" and called on the government "to make it clear where we stand...in a way that will persuade others and more important, that will convince ourselves...