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...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...
Last week Seneca Falls (pop. 7,500), nestling in central New York's bucolic Finger Lakes area, was abustle with a big celebration. Restaurant owner Toots Shor was there. So were Film Magnate Spyros Skouras, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Bob Hope, Harold Stassen. And Dwight Eisenhower. They were all present for the groundbreaking ceremonies for Eisenhower College...
...panels. Just as inevitably, many of the grand remedies for world ills brought out in the discussions were familiar nostrums that had been heard too often before-George Kennan, for example, attempted to revive Poland's old Rapacki Plan to denuclearize Central Europe, while ever-hopeful Harold Stassen proposed an arms-free zone on each side of the Bering Strait. Nonetheless, the convocation served the useful purpose of providing an intellectual workshop for a farand free-ranging discussion of some central ideas and issues that must be faced before any form of peace on earth...
...strikingly similar situation developed after Tom Dewey's 1948 defeat. With an angry coalition of Taft and Stassen forces denouncing him as "a symbol of Dewey misrule" and demanding his departure, then National Chairman Hugh Scott called a meeting of the committee in wintry Omaha, Neb., in January 1949. As Scott laughingly recalls it, he deliberately chose an inconvenient site in hopes of reducing attendance. His strategy seemed to work, for he survived a confidence vote by a four-vote margin. But six months later, he resigned...
...obviously trying to promote Romney's candidacy in an effort to cause a convention stalemate that would wind up with a compromise nominee. Guess who. Said Goldwater, in about as scathing a comment as one Republican can make about another: "Nixon is sounding more like Harold Stassen every...