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Costly Meddling. Upon taking over as state chairman, Bliss got a massive registration drive under way, traveled about the state instilling into local Republican groups his gospel of organized enthusiasm. Result: in 1950, despite an intense and well-financed drive by organized labor to defeat the architect of the Taft-Hartley Act, Senator Robert A. Taft won reelection by a smashing margin, and the G.O.P. gained four additional House seats...
Getchell has been alternating four players on the inside positions. Keith Chiappa and David Taft have been starting, but David Fuller and Robert diNormandie have been substituting freely...
...newcomers include several worth watching. Among the Republicans, former New York Herald Tribune Editor Ogden R. Reid proved to be a rousing vote getter in New York's Westchester County, buried New Rochelle's Mayor Stanley Church by a record plurality. Ohio's Robert Taft Jr., majority leader of the Ohio house and son of the late Senator, swamped Cleveland's inept Richard D. Kennedy to win an at-large seat. Utah unveiled a bright newcomer in Sherman P. Lloyd, 48, a talented Utah state senator, who clobbered Liberal Bruce Jenkins. Florida's Ed Gurney...
...Campaigns in Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska. Interviewed are: former HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut; Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, up for re-election in Illinois; Senator Homer Capehart, running for re-election in Indiana; Robert A. Taft Jr., candidate for Congressman at large in Ohio; Michael Di Salle, running for re-election as Governor of Ohio; former Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, running for Governor in Nebraska...
...family. All the Boettchers wanted to do was turn over to the state, for use as the Gov ernor's mansion, their dreamland Denver home, with 23 furnished rooms, a magnificent tooled-leather library, a crystal chandelier that once adorned the White House (in the days of President Taft), and a profusion of priceless tapestries. When the Colorado legislators declined the offer, McNichols went right ahead and accepted it-and he is now living in the Boettcher museum. In short, McNichols enjoys his let-the-chips-fall approach to life and politics. When he has a big problem...