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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, 1-3:30 p.m. and 8 to midnight; NBC^ 1-4 p.m. and 7-11 p.m.; CBS, 1-3:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 11 p.m.). Coverage from the convention floor. Appearing as cub reporters for ABC will be Dwight Eisenhower and James Hagerty...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Dwight Macdonald, Maxwell Geismar, and John Houseman discuss the role of the artist during the '30s and show films of some of the '30s' greats: Carole Lombard, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, George Gershwin, etc. Repeat...
Behind Scranton's candidacy were coalescing most of the major forces of moderate Republicanism-with the notable exceptions of Dwight Eisenhower, who still refuses to take a public stand, and Richard Nixon, who remains tangled in the web of his own ambitions. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was coming back from Saigon "to do everything I can" to aid Scranton. Nelson Rockefeller had turned over to Scranton the facilities of his own presidential campaign organization, and last week went so far as to say he would not support Goldwater even if Barry was the Republican nominee. Michigan's Governor...
...campaign, Scranton was winning strong allies among the forces of moderate Republicanism. Henry Cabot Lodge's campaign backers were now working for Scranton. Nelson Rockefeller withdrew from the race, threw his support (and, perhaps more important, the facilities of his widespread organization) to Scranton. And while Dwight Eisenhower maintained a glum silence, his brother Milton sent Scranton a lengthy letter of endorsement, said pointedly: "I know that you avoid snap judgments and clever remarks devoid of sincerity and common sense. I admire you for your moderate but firm philosophy, and I hope the American people will realize what...
...fetish with Goldwater and his followers; they constantly compare 1964 to 1952, when, they insist, the Republican kingmakers of the industrial Northeast cheated Robert A. Taft out of the Republican nomination. The comparison, of course, is absurd. Bill Scranton has not achieved the national stature of a Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater is far, far from being a Bob Taft. Moreover, the storied kingmakers who launched Ike into politics-and thereby won undying enmity from the G.O.P.'s conservative wing-did not catapult Scranton, or anyone else, into the race, and as yet have attempted nothing of consequence...