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...Hubert Humphrey's bailiwick of Minnesota, Republicans profited from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's decay and disarray. Beleaguered by intraparty strife and a state insurance scandal, Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag was toppled by Republican Moderate Harold LeVander, 56, a St. Paul attorney and onetime law partner of Harold Stassen's. Swedish-descended son of a Lutheran preacher, LeVander is a stem-winding speaker who has delivered more than 200 high school commencement addresses with such galvanizing titles as "Rise Up and Build" and "You Have Singled; Now Score...
...Harold Stassen's letter [Aug. 5] proposing a "Fourth Alternative" in Viet Nam is based on two inaccurate observations. He asserts that "historically, the North, known as Tongking, and the South, known as Annam, were separate," and that "the North and South each have a viable economic base...
HAROLD E. STASSEN...
...What the hell," he notes, "even Harold Stassen had a bigger voice than I did simply because he was a candidate. You have to be a candidate to be heard." He adds: "I'll be any kind of candidate for anything to carry this cause?or I'll be no candidate, if that's the best way to get the Republican Party back into the mainstream of American life...
...odds are all against him. Lieutenant Governor Ray Shafer, 48, hand-picked successor of outgoing Governor William Scranton, won the Republican nomination with only a token (17%) challenge from Perennial Candidate Harold Stassen, can expect a united party behind him in November. Just to show how united and strong that party was-and to prevent a nonorganization man from sneaking in-Republican leaders asked and received a winning vote for Walter Alessandroni, the party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor who was killed in a plane crash ten days before the election...