Ohio Republicans figure to send another Senator Taft to Washington next year. As a first step, they gave Robert Taft Jr., 47, an immensely impressive primary victory last week over Ohio Secretary of State Ted W. Brown, a respectable vote getter who has been winning in statewide elections for 14 years. The count: Taft, 605,505; Brown, 160,504.
"Young Bob," as he is inevitably known, is no boy wonder. The grandson of a U.S. President and the son of a man who came to be known as "Mr. Republican," Bob Taft, Jr., always wanted to make the political grade on his own. By...
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