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...first task is to erase the aura of narrow exclusivity that it acquired during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign, and to establish itself as a broad-based party with ample room for ideological differences and leaders as far apart as a Rockefeller and California's Governor-elect Ronald Reagan. If that prescription seemed predictable, they did not agree on it without engaging in some caustic casuistry that did little to help the party or the disputants...
Among the other potential candidates, Reagan says: "I have a four-year contract with the people of California, and I intend to keep the contract"; Rocky insists that he is really "out of the picture" this time; and such newcomers as Senators-elect Charles Percy of Illinois and Mark Hatfield of Oregon, as well as New York's Mayor John Lindsay, are considered more promising for 1972. That leaves Richard Nixon, whose chief support comes from precisely those regions where Romney is weakest because of his 1964 defection-the South and parts of the Midwest...
Tuesday, November 29 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Eric Sevareid conducts "A Conversation with Senator-elect Edward Brooke" of Massachusetts, the first Negro ever elected to the U.S. Senate by popular ballot...
...There is a question," rumbled George Meany last week, "where the vote went." Labor had undeniably failed to elect most of its favorite candidates. What was especially galling to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. president was that the federation's campaign arm, the Committee on Political Education, boasted a stronger organization this year than ever before. While anticipating two rough years for labor legislation on Capitol Hill, Meany promised to take "a real good look" at C.O.P.E. operations...
...terms of British membership might have cut off Australia's biggest export market. Since then, Japan has become a major outlet for Australian wool, and Red China a major purchaser of Australian wheat. Australia was a leader in founding the Asia Development Bank (which will elect its first president and board of directors this week in Tokyo), and has broadly liberalized its immigration laws to permit easier Asian entry into a society that was once nearly 100% British. At present, more than 14,000 Asian students are studying at Australian universities...