In the Race

>In Idaho, Republican Governor Robert E. Smylie, 51, dean of the nation's Governors and a 1968 vice-presidential hopeful, filed for a fourth four-year term, which if completed would make his the longest gubernatorial tenure in U.S. history (current record: 15 years, set by Maryland's Albert C. Ritchie from 1920 through 1934). Smylie, who led the 1965 fight to dump Goldwaterite Dean Burch as G.O.P. national chairman, will campaign on his "New Day" programs of increased state outlays for health, welfare and education financed by a 3% sales tax. Assured the G.O.P. nomination, Smylie is favored over any of five candidates entered in the Democratic primary.

>In Arkansas, ex-Congressman Brooks Hays, 67, who was unseated in 1958 after taking a moderate stand on the Little Rock integration riots, became a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to succeed six-term Incumbent Orval Faubus, 56, who says (not for the first time) that he is retiring. Other Democrats in the race include Segregationist State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 41, and Businessman Winston Chandler, 46. However, Hays's chief rival for the nomination is expected to be the man who ousted him from Congress, Little Rock Oculist Dale Alford, 50, who has yet to announce. The Democratic nominee will face Arkansas' Mr. Republican, Millionaire Rancher Winthrop Rockefeller, brother of New York's Governor Nelson. Winthrop won 44% of the vote in 1964, is given an even chance of winning this year.

>In Maine, the campaign was plainly becoming a bane. With 321 Democrats in the field for local and state offices-greatest number in at least 28 years--seven Republicans and three Democrats were contesting one congressional seat. Republican Margaret Chase Smith's U.S. Senate seat is sought by two Democrats: State Representative Plato Truman and, to compound the confusion, a Portland landscape consultant named Jack L. Smith, 43. Moreover, a Democrat named Carlton Reed is challenging Republican Governor John H. Reed.

>In Montana, conservative Republican Governor Tim Babcock, 46, opened his drive for the U.S. Senate against liberal Democrat Lee Metcalf, 55, the incumbent, by buying a $69,000 twin-engined plane for campaigning. Babcock is expected to zero in on Metcalf's record as one of the Senate's leading critics of the Viet Nam war.

>In Mexico City, vacationing Barry Goldwater reiterated that he "will not be a candidate for the presidency" in 1968 but announced plans to run in that year for the Senate seat held by Democrat Carl Hayden, 88.

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