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Among Democrats, Michigan's Neil Staebler ran a back-breaking campaign, lured former G.O.P. Congressman Alvin Bentley into reckless remarks in face-to-face debate, won an at-large seat despite the Romney tide. New York's Samuel Stratton, who tried unsuccessfully for the gubernatorial nomination, scored an upset victory in a Republican-gerrymandered district. California's Gus Hawkins, 55, a 28-year veteran of the state assembly and a New Frontiersman, became the first Negro from west of the Rockies to reach the House. He defeated another Negro, Republican Herman T. Smith...
...York's Democratic Representative Samuel S. Stratton picked up some publicity in a vain try for his party's gubernatorial nomination. But Republicans outregister Democrats in his new district, and he is up against a pert state senator Mrs. Janet Hill Gordon...
Brooks, a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, will replace Julius A. Stratton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose term has expired...
Unless something is done, the state will have a deficit of $168 million by next July i. It is not entirely Kerners fault. He was the first Illinois Governor to inherit a budget deficit from his predecessor: some $13 million from Republican Governor William Stratton. The state legislature last year voted to spend $76 million more than Kerner asked for in his $3.1 billion budget, and the Republican-controlled senate rejected his plans to raise an extra $75 million, mainly through an increase in the corporation...
Unfortunately, Assembly is loaded with this sort of story, although, happily, none of the others can approach "Mrs. Stratton" for length. Apparently though, O'Hara felt guilty about including so many uneventful tales, for he tries to make up for it with several others in which all kinds of wild, unbelievable things happen in every paragraph...