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...odds are all against him. Lieutenant Governor Ray Shafer, 48, hand-picked successor of outgoing Governor William Scranton, won the Republican nomination with only a token (17%) challenge from Perennial Candidate Harold Stassen, can expect a united party behind him in November. Just to show how united and strong that party was-and to prevent a nonorganization man from sneaking in-Republican leaders asked and received a winning vote for Walter Alessandroni, the party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor who was killed in a plane crash ten days before the election...
...Harold Stassen, 58, the G.O.P.'s perennial candidate for almost anything, hopped back on the treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party...
...begin framing their 1966 ticket. Among them were the five contenders for the top spot. On personal grounds, Bill Scranton would prefer State Attorney General Walter Alessandroni, his closest political lieutenant and his campaign manager in the 1964 preconvention period. But Scranton decided instead on Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, 48, a lawyer whose effective campaigning has put him ahead in the opinion polls. While publicly maintaining that there was "no leading candidate," Scranton privately informed the four also-rans that Shafer was his man. Said State G.O.P. Chairman Craig Truax, a loyal Scranton man: "I don't know...
Died. Burr Shafer, 65, cartoonist, whose wry historical satires (Says an innkeeper to a soldier: "And if you're not out by 12 o'clock, General Washington, I'll have to charge you for another day") moved President Harry Truman to write "I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get the point"; of a pulmonary embolism; in Orange, Calif...
Elected were: Richard A. Spencer '66, of Leverett House and Washington, D.C., president; Steven Q. Shafer '66, of Eliot House and Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Ibis; Samuel T. Wyrick III '66, of Eliot House and Greensboro, N.C. and William S. Donnell '66, of Lowell House and Winnetka, III, Co-Narthices...