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...governors who took office this year, none was more eager to get going than Michigan's John Swainson. But by last week, like many another freshman Governor across the U.S., Democrat Swainson, 35, had discovered that campaign saying was a far cry from in-office doing...
...Swainson stepped into the shoes of Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, whose six terms of financial feuding with Michigan's Republican legislature had teetered the state to the brink of bankruptcy. After Soapy, anyone would have looked good to the G.O.P. legislators, and Swainson looked especially promising: he was elected on his record as Lieutenant Governor, as a state senator, and as a World War II combat veteran who lost both legs below the knee. The legislators were delighted when Swainson dropped around to pay them a surprise visit on the opening day of their 1961 session...
...minute Swainson began poking into Michigan's fiscal mess-the problem that popped Soapy's bubble-he also ran into trouble. In short order, the legislature killed the income tax that Swainson had proposed in order to lower the state deficit of $67 million. It cut back Swainson's request for aid to state universities and colleges from $105,700,000 to $98,400,000, upsetting the schools' delicately balanced budgets and forcing them all to restrict enrollments next fall. Especially hard hit by the reduction was poor but proud Wayne State University in midtown Detroit...
...articulate Michigan State Professor Paul Bagwell (TIME cover, Oct. 24) made his second try at ending twelve years of labor-dominated Democratic rule. Across his state. Bagwell did better than Dick Nixon-but not well enough to overcome the Wayne County (Detroit) lead of U.A.W.-backed Lieutenant Governor John Swainson, a personable and legless war veteran, who ardently defended the record of outgoing Governor G. Mennen Williams...
...Going to Try." As of last week, there was plenty of restlessness in Democratic ranks, and politicos gave Paul Bagwell a good even chance of beating the machine. The Detroit News lashed Democrat Swainson for talking generalities while "citizens are coming by firsthand experience to realize that the businesses on which jobs are based cannot be expected to lie still forever while politicians joyfully clout them about the head...