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...election, said Washington's articulate Republican Governor Daniel Evans, gave the party a "very, very broad base." From this base, the G.O.P. hopes to catapult its candidate into the White House two years from now. That is quite a remarkable ambition, in view of the party's recent and desperate shortage of attractive national candidates. Suddenly, Bliss sees "a refreshing number of names," most of them belonging to moderates with immoderate ambitions. "The tremendous victories of all the potential presidential candidates confuse the 1968 picture a bit," said Nebraska's Republican National Committeeman Don Ross, adding: "It's a helluva...
Though he insists that the governorship is his only goal, a victory for Reagan will inevitably catapult him onto the national scene as the G.O.P.'s Lochinvar from the West. His name is certain to crop up in connection with the party's vice presidential and even presidential nominations in 1968 and 1972. In any event, as Governor of California, in control of a pivotal delegation at the G.O.P. convention, he will be a major influence in selecting whichever candidate the party chooses...
...battle should be celebrated. With profits gained from their sell-out Playboy parody, the Poonies had ordered Navy surplus rafts in which the invaders were to cross the Charles, $600 worth of harmless bows and arrows which were being manufactured for them specially, and blue-prints for a catapult loaded with 1000 tennis balls were in the making...
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Former Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who steered Tom Dewey to prominence and helped catapult Ike into the presidency, emerged from seven years of political retirement to run Keating's campaign. "This thing got me sore," he said. "If Kennedy is elected, it will establish that a rich man can come in, make a deal with bosses, and change our whole constitutional system. H. L. Hunt could go in and run in some Rocky Mountain state. Governor Wallace could run where he pleased. This is outrageous...