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Hardly had Wagner picked his ticket when the bosses he had defied selected their own slate, dared him to enter a bloody September primary. The Tammany organization's choice for mayor: State Controller Arthur Levitt, 61, a respected vote getter ever since he survived Nelson Rockefeller's 1958 Republican blitz into Albany. Levitt is a product of New York schools, from P.S. 19 to Columbia University; he served on the board of education before running for controller, and has won bipartisan praise for cautiously watchdogging state funds...
...prowl for a likely vote getter in next December's Senate elections, the Australian Republican Party went to a promising place. Adelaide's Charles Birk's department store, picked out a $25-a-week salesgirl, broad-shouldered, brunette Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser, 23. Figuring that her five world records would make her all but unbeatable in swim-conscious Australia, the party invited Dawn to carry its banner but got a polite brush-off. "I understand one of the party's aims is to do away with the royal family." said loyal Monarchist Dawn...
...Suite 1625-1633 of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller put the matter squarely to Republican Senator Jacob K. javits: the G.O.P. stood its best chance since Fiorello La Guardia to capture New York City's mayoralty-and Jack Javits, a remarkable vote getter, was the man to do the job. In urging Javits to run, Rockefeller was playing for high stakes: a Republican victory in New York City next November would help Rocky carry the state next year and greatly enhance his chances for the 1964 G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...Paul Fino, 47, five-term Republican Congressman from the Democratic Bronx, was proposed. Sniffed one Republican: "Who the hell is Fino?" Also mentioned were: New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, 56, who has never run for important elective office; Representative John Lindsay, 39, an attractive, consistent vote getter from Manhattan's Silk Stocking District; and Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Nelson Rockefeller's four brothers. But Whitney, Lindsay and David Rockefeller were all reluctant to make the attempt...
...Republicans took a long step toward picking up one of the U.S.'s key statehouses. After a rough-and-tumble primary fight, former Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, 60, won the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey, and in the process proved himself an impressive vote getter...