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Levander has the kind of qualifications that win elections in Minnesota. He has a solid record of athletic, scholastic, and business success -- all within the state. He is Swedish -- ethnically perfect for Minnesota's heavily Scandinavian population (though on this score no one can match Rolvaag, this score no one can match Rolvaag; gid pioneer classic Giants In The Earth). Levander also has a reputation for forceful oratory; he was a star schoolboy orator and later taught public speaking...
...Republicans' big hope for victory has always been the insurance scandal. Three weeks ago Levander added sensational new fuel to a fire Republicans have been stoking for the last year and a half. He demanded the Rolvaag explain a $2000 campaign check from the notorious American Allied insurance empire dated January, 1965 -- just before the furor began...
...Rolvaag, meanwhile, has been widely non-campaigning. He doesn't answer Levander's charges or even recognize his opponent by name in speeches that monotonously tick off his achievements of the last three and a half years...
...D.F.L.'s biggest and still unresovled problem is naturally party unity. After the primary Keith brooded at his home in Rochester for three days. Bowing to party pressure he then announced his support of Rolvaag "for the good of the party." Since then he's made several appearances at D.F.L. rallies and spoken half-heartedly in support of the now official ticket. Humphrey, who wisely sat on the sidelines during the primary fight, has returned to lend his waning prestige to Rolvaag's campaign and patch up the party's wounds...
...Keith and his band of young Turks and old liberal idealists are anything but placated. Their big worry, observers say, is not Rolvaag, but Short, who clearly has his eye on the governorship in 1970. Short is a new-style politician like Pennsylvania's Shapp, with money and ambition, but little else...