In the last days before Minnesota's Republican primary, Harold Stassen uncorked his Sunday punch. Across the state streamed a 300-car caravan of bustling, energetic, amateur electioneers. At small towns in 60 of Minnesota's 87 counties they stopped, posted placards, distributed campaign throwaways, talked politics with main street loungers.
By last week Harold Stassen knew that his "Paul Revere's Ride," a tested tactic from his 1938 campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist...
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