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...even if all the Republican leaders who oppose Goldwater were to gather around Scranton, would they be able to stop Barry's bandwagon? There is deep doubt that they could. "It would take a superhuman effort," says Maine's Fred Scribner, general counsel to the Republican National Committee. Says General Lucius Clay, an authentic Republican kingmaker: "It's late, very late...
Toward the end of this year's primary campaign, Brown hitched himself securely to the Barry Goldwater bandwagon, attacked Taft as a liberal. Taft replied in words his father might have used. "I," he said, "am a thinking conservative...
After 15 P.G.A. tournaments, in three of which neither played, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were battling it out as usual for the lead in money winnings. The only thing still up for grabs was third trumpet on the Fort Knox bandwagon. Puerto Rico's Juan ("Chi Chi") Rodriguez was tooting mightily, and only a connoisseur would have the bad sense to ask whatever happened to Tony Lema. The standings last week, before the Colonial National in Fort Worth...
...Another Bandwagon? Though Goldwater's Iowa showing fell shy of expectations, he has done well enough to pick up 162 sure delegate votes, all gained at conventions but a bloc of 32 from Illinois, plus another 48 votes that are considered fairly safe. Across the U.S., Goldwater's present strategy is to concentrate on the state conventions, electing enough delegates with promises of commitment to give him imposing first-ballot strength at the national convention. Goldwater aides claim that their man will have upwards of 550 first-ballot votes by July, with 655 needed for the nomination...
...could lose most of that strength in a twinkling. Some delegates are bound to Barry only for the first ballot, after which they can vote for anybody. Others are only loosely pledged to him, could desert him even before the convention to climb aboard somebody else's bandwagon...