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Delaware. Though he lost his first election at 21, middle-of-the-road Republican Caleb Boggs, 51, has never lost one since and as Delaware's Governor managed to coexist in cozy comfort with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. A campaign manager's dream-he comes from a family of small farmers, won five battle stars and the Croix de Guerre in World War II combat-affable Lawyer Boggs is said to know more Delawareans by first name than any other man in the state...
...triumph of Representative William H. Meyer, Vermont's first Democratic Representative in 106 years, was short. After just one term in the House, where he was marked for his pacifist speeches, he was defeated by Republican Governor Robert Stafford by 24,000 votes...
...voters gave well-liked Muñoz Marin 58% of the vote and a fourth straight term as Governor. Statehood Republican Candidate Luis Ferré trailed with 250,000 votes to 456,000 for Muñoz Marin. The church-backed Christian Action Party, on its first try for office, got only 51,000 votes-less than the 10% needed to remain a registered political party. Muñoz Marin, a shrewd old campaigner who aroused church ire by his approval of government birth-control programs, admitted that he might not have done so well if the church-state issue...
Maine. Lanky, moderately liberal Republican John Hathaway Reed, 39, is as typical a "Down East" product as the Cobbler potatoes he grows. He talks with a twang, was a first-rate harness racer until his wife made him quit after he had a bad spill; now he drives a collection of antique Packards. Reed entered the state senate in 1957, and as senate president succeeded automatically to the governorship on the death of Democrat Clinton Clauson. His ten-month first term was lacklustre; in his second he promises to improve state schools...
...news staff meanwhile had crammed itself into a smaller hold on 26th Street, where there was hardly enough room for its glamorous Spielmeisters to comb their hair. Office boys bustled about dressed up like nightclub waiters. The rest of NBC's first team-including Regional Reporters Sander Vanocur, Frank Mc-Gee, Merrill Mueller and, especially, John Chancellor was equally strong...