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...speak for G.O.P. candidates and to lecture on his philosophy. He easily won re-election in 1958, this time riding not another man's coattails but his own deeply felt convictions. He did not try to hide his dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower Administration. Once he called it a "dime-store New Deal," and on another occasion, when he was asked if Milton Eisenhower might make a good presidential candidate, he sniffed: "One Eisenhower in a generation is enough." He expressed his own political creed in a book, The Conscience of a Conservative, which since 1960 has gone through...
Once, years ago, at a party in Texas, Romulo, who is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, found himself in a group composed entirely of six-footers. Someone asked him how he felt. "Like a dime among nickels," was his spunky reply. He does not feel dwarfed by his tough new job, either. At 65, he considers it "the best assignment I ever had," and wants to make the University of the Philippines "the anchor of democratic faith in this part of the world...
Headier Stuff. Shoehorned into green-and-gilt chairs at dime-sized tables, last week's audience snacked on ham sand wiches, strawberry sundaes, champagne, beer, pink "Pops punch" and Fiedler's musical buffet-everything from a glass-rattling Sousa march ("to get everybody's attention") to a Mendelssohn concerto, a Strauss waltz, a Weber overture and a splash of lushly orchestrated show tunes. For surprise encores Vaudevillian Fiedler uncorked a brassy, off Beatle I Want to Hold Your Hand complete with handclapping and nasal chorus of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from the string section, and a breezy Hello...
...enormous and uncomplicated faith in Goldwater." Yes, they like Barry. But, what is far more important, they like freedom-and they want their freedom without ifs, ands or buts. Freedom activists believe that a rollback of Government power and controls is not only possible but necessary. Today's "dime-thin" margin is tomorrow's landslide...
...best was good enough. When the votes were finally counted in California's Republican presidential primary, Goldwater had defeated New York's Nelson Rockefeller by a dime-thin 59,000 votes-1,089,133 (51.3%) to 1,030,180 (48.7%). And with his California victory Goldwater came within handshaking distance of the G.O.P.'s 1964 presidential nomination...