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...South Vietnamese now shaping their nation's constitutional future. Her campaign symbol was a picture of a mother with her child in arms, the mother representing the nation and the child its people, and it helped Mme. Xa come in as the Assembly's third highest vote getter. So did her calculated demeanor. "A woman must al ways be more careful than a man because she is being judged closer than he is," she explains. 'That doesn't mean you can't be Machiavellian. But be modest. They expect...
...admiration for his onetime boss, the late Joe McCarthy, the heavy-handed hatchet man of 1960 who ran Jack Kennedy's campaign the way Captain Ahab ran the Pequod, the glowering, omnipresent Attorney General who always seemed to be under fire-Robert Kennedy upstaging the greatest vote getter of them...
...point in holding a convention. Rocky, of course, had a couple of other objectives in mind. One was to undermine New York-based Richard Nixon, who has been impressing Southern Republicans on recent speaking excursions. The other was to solidify the support of New York's greatest vote getter, Javits, behind Rockefeller's own bid for a third four-year term as Governor in November...
...John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 28, who earlier this year broke family tradition by becoming a Democrat, already is being touted as a future West Virginia Governor. Young Rockefeller, nephew of New York's Republican Governor Nelson and Arkansas' G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop, was the biggest vote getter in a Kanawha County field of 60 candidates for 14 statehouse nominations, is virtually assured of election. Shrugged the lanky (6' 6") bachelor: "I shook a lot of hands...
Jack Javits is New York's champion vote-getter of either party. He has won seven consecutive elections-four for the House, one for the office of state attorney-general and two for the U.S. Senate-beating his last opponent, James B. Donovan, with a plurality of nearly a million votes in 1962. He even carried overwhelmingly Democratic New York City in that year, although Dwight Eisenhower had lost there by 62,000 votes...