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California. Alan Cranston shaped his liberal leanings at the front, reporting on the activities of Mussolini's legions in Ethiopia. After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
Kansas. Republican Congressman Bob Dole, long a staunch conservative, has become more of a moderate this year in his race for Veteran Senator Frank Carlson's Republican seat. Author of a Food-for-Peace amendment that now sends U.S. farmers as technical advisers abroad, Nixon-back-er Dole easily beat out Democratic Candidate William I. Robinson, a Wichita lawyer. Kentucky. As chief executive officer of Jefferson County (Louisville), Republican Marlow W. Cook, 42, was prepared for advancement. His hard-line policy on Viet Nam and tough stand on riots appealed to Kentucky voters more than the moderately liberal philosophy...
...state visit was clearly off to a bad start, even though penitent Turkish authorities promptly sacked the security chief and promised to send the forgetful official to some Turkish equivalent of Siberia. That night at dinner, President Cevdet Sunay gently reminded his guest that Turkey intended to remain a staunch member of NATO. Formerly, he said, Turkey had worked as hard as France for an East-West détente, but the occupation of Czechoslovakia had "unfortunately shown us that our optimism was too great...
...COULD YOU? headlined Stockholm's Expressen. "Nixon has a Greek running mate," cracked Bob Hope, "and now everyone wants one." Said a former Kennedy aide: "She's gone from Prince Charming to Caliban." In a more sober vein, French Political Commentator André Fontaine wrote in Le Monde: "Jackie, whose staunch courage during John's funeral made such an impression, now chooses to shock by marrying a man who could be her father and whose career contradicts?rather strongly, to say the least?the liberal spirit that animated President Kennedy...
...Said Barry Goldwater a former Air Force Reserve major general who has known LeMay for years: "I hope he hasn't made a mistake, but I think he has." There was even flak from his mother-in-law "I idolize Curt," said 91-year-old Maude Maitland a staunch Republican, "but I'm very, very disappointed. Mihai Patrichi LeMay's boss at California's Networks Electronic Corp,, declared: "Wallace is a no-good bum. He just like the dictators when they got started in Europe. May's former colleagues in the Pentagon were also worried...