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What started out as a Republican dream ticket has turned into a nightmare for party professionals and jeopardized a good chance for the Republicans to pick up a vital seat in their drive to win control of the Senate in 1970. Robert Taft Jr., 53, son of the late Senator and scion of the wealthy Cincinnati family, was to have run for Governor, with Incumbent Governor James Rhodes, 60, going for the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Stephen Young, 81. Instead, the two Republicans are locked in combat for the Senate nomination, with the only real campaign issue being Rhodes...
LIFE magazine reported that Rhodes had income tax problems stemming from alleged misuse of campaign funds. The magazine also said that he had been excessively chummy with a jailed Mafia hoodlum. Taft, billed as "Bob Taft-a Man You Can Trust," is exploiting the "integrity" issue. He recently said that "Ohioans are tired of the Governor's lifestyle," stressing the word life...
...second half of the season, he moved to guard and playmaker and scored 65 points against Taft High-his personal high. and was named All-City New York...
...name into election as state treasurer. This year a Cleveland businessman who also happens to be John F. (for Francis) Kennedy is running for Ohio secretary of state. Others have potent patronymics supported by heritage. Adlai Stevenson III, Illinois state treasurer, is after a U.S. Senate seat. Robert Taft Jr. wants to represent Ohio in the Senate...
...Lawrence Lowell, her immediate answer became a legend. "The president," she said, "has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft." Many Harvard presidents have earned such awe. Of the four men who have ruled Harvard since 1869, three were giants among educators -Lowell, Charles W. Eliot and James...