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facility. She defended the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory and successfully secured federal funding for the laboratory against budget cuts by the
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and associations...Those four years in
Harrisburg were a stage of growth in which we learned talents we can put to use here."
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Scranton supported her husband's congressional, gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. Bill Scranton was
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