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...Rookie or a Patsy?" Ironically, one factor in solidifying Dirksen's stand for Goldwater came from Scranton himself. On June 22 Scranton flew to Washington, dropped in at Dirksen's office and tried to sell the Senator on becoming a favorite-son candidate in Illinois-an obvious ploy to withhold first-ballot votes from Goldwater. This annoyed Ev. When Scranton left, he phoned a friend and thundered: "What do they think I am? A rookie or a patsy? I certainly am not impressed...
...Reckless Proposals." Next morning he breakfasted with delegates in Charlotte, N.C., then flew to Atlanta, where he got a roaring welcome from a confetti-throwing crowd. Cried Scranton to Georgia's convention delegates: "Of course we Republicans believe that the states should exercise maximum responsibilities. But we also believe in federal responsibility. We believe that the honorable doctrine of states' rights should not be used to set South against North, to set East against West, to set black man against white...
...Laird was serving as vice chairman of the G.O.P. Platform Committee when Richard Nixon flew to Manhattan, huddled with Nelson Rockefeller, and arrived at the famed "Treaty of Fifth Avenue," which considerably liberalized a platform already drafted. Incumbent President Eisenhower was irked by its implied criticism of his defense policies. Conservatives on the platform went into open revolt, and the situation got so out of hand that Laird had to step in and take over the chairman's gavel from Illinois' inexperienced Charles Percy. Within 20 hours, acting both as cop and conciliator, Laird worked things out. Again...
...sister would stir a major scandal. His agents kept her under surveillance, but she came and went as she pleased. Last August, after the mother died, there was a violent episode when Fidel decided to expropriate the family land once and for all. Juanita started selling the cattle; Fidel flew into a rage, denounced her as a "counterrevolutionary worm," and rushed to the Oriente farm...
United's one-class, which offered almost as much comfort but not as many frills as first-class, flew high at the start. But it leveled off after American and TWA were allowed to lower their first-class fares this year. From New York to Los Angeles, for example, the first-class fare including taxes dropped from $196.25 to $168.95 one-way, very close to the one-class $160.65.* On that coast-to-coast route in the future, the first-class fare will remain the same, United's one-class will become "standard," and coach will cost...