Flying to San Francisco to deliver the Republican Convention's keynote speech this week, Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie confided to a friend that he had watched the pyrotechnics of Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement, found them distasteful. Said Langlie: "I'll be passing up the Chicago brand of prejudicial fire and brimstone in favor of what I've tried to make a higher tone." To his wife Evelyn he fretted: "I want to be sure that nobody can say this speech has any unjustified name-calling."
When balding, blue-eyed Arthur Langlie took the Cow Palace platform, there was virtually...
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