National Affairs: The Battlers

At first, it looked as if New Yorkers were in for a slightly tedious, thoroughly respectable campaign for governor this year. On their records Republican Candidate Irving Ives and Democratic Candidate Averell Harriman could be expected to explore the issues with scholarly precision and to conduct themselves with the utmost decorum. Things didn't work out like that; by last week the campaign was not very respectable.

From Irving Ives, after his wife's skirt was spattered by a ripe tomato in Watertown, came some of the harshest language yet heard in a harsh U.S....

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