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With his landslide re-election as New York's mayor last fall. Robert F. Wagner established himself as the state's leading Democratic vote getter, and a principal in any Democratic plans to defeat New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller next November. Last weekend, in a hastily called news conference, Wagner announced his "irrevocable decision" not to accept the nomination even if drafted...
Proven Vote Getter. Despite the pungency of McElroy's invective, most Ohio politicians think Di Salle will beat him in next week's primary. McElroy has shown little personal color, has waged an almost entirely negative, I-don't-like-Mike campaign. But Republican Rhodes (sure to win the G.O.P. primary) has a fighting chance to beat Di Salle in November. Rhodes is a versatile man who served two terms as president of the Amateur Athletic Union and coauthored three books of U.S. history. He is a tireless joiner and a proven vote getter who, in winning...
...seeks them. At time the professor seems to want the best of six possible worlds. He intends of course, to remain a true intellectual, a man who stands alone resisting the "terrible simplifiers" and the conforming majority. Yet in making his "brief foray into politics" as a vote-getter, he must reduce his intellectual critque to a slogan: "There is one issue ... saving the human race...
...made himself public property. At Harvard the Dining Hall pundits are already estimating his chances of filling the 70,000-name petition necessary to put him on the ballot. The wags are coining such slogans as "Stu is Thru," and if the professor begins to look like a vote-getter he can expect a red smear...
...first four-term Governor turned out to be too much. A small (5 ft. 8 in.), grey-haired man with a winsome smile and a squeaky voice, Daniel hardly fits the image of the flamboyant Texas politician-but Texans seem to like him, and he is a formidable vote-getter. This year he can point to a scandal-free administration and a record of modest achievement in highway construction, industrial development and teachers' pay raises...