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...last week, a youthful dark-haired man was having lunch when he heard the roll-call bell. He jammed the last quarter of his tuna sandwich into his mouth, gulped his coffee and hurried up to a gallery overhanging the Democratic side of the aisle. There, Michael Anthony Stepovich, 39, Alaska's first native-born Governor, watched intently as one by one the Congressmen below called out their votes. A few minutes later, the House passed the Alaska statehood bill. Stepovich glanced at his wife, sitting a few seats away, and broke into a broad, gold-tipped smile...
...Mike Stepovich, happy as a sourdough with a new-found nugget, turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman...
...could never supply. Yet life is slower and tastier somehow. I've been back to New York twice-a walk up Times Square and I've just about had it. Now put the reins in our hands and see what we do with it." Says Governor Mike Stepovich: "Only the people of little faith are against statehood...
Coffee Royals & "Pan Ginney." Mike Stepovich typifies the pioneer's sense of destiny better than any Alaskan Governor before him. A Republican appointed by a Republican Administration, Stepovich handles himself like a man of the people, and the people-65% Democrats, 35% Republicans- like him that...
What they like best is his open-faced friendliness, his native talent for conveying to doubters "outside" what Alaska is all about. "I'm Mike Stepovich," he says quietly to strangers, and then, tentatively : "I'm Governor of Alaska." Unschooled in the well-oiled sophistication expected of Governors, he is content to make his points with an earnest warmth that radiates alley or when a he waits his barbershop-or turn a in a territorial bowling committee meeting. And beneath all of this is the tough mettle that was born in him and was strengthened on the cold...