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...even as he declared himself out, Rocky deftly elbowed a rival Republican presidential possibility: Richard Nixon. Rockefeller indicated that in 1968 he might even support a favorite-son presidential nomination for New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. If he is still Governor, Rockefeller can almost certainly arrange for the New York Republican convention delegation to vote for Javits. This would pretty much leave Nixon out in the cold in the state that he now calls home...
...JACOB K. JAVITS U.S. Senate Washington...
...Newport Reading Room, where men of the summer colony still gather in the afternoon for drinks, backgammon or boccie. To gain membership in any of these hallowed institutions is every bit as difficult as it was to be accepted in Newport back in the days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport's most influential regulars are no longer rich themselves, they are apt to screen newcomers more on the basis...
...beermakers are fighting each other along both marketing and technological lines. Since sport is the biggest area of beer advertising and promotion, more brewers are buying into professional teams. Struggling Jacob Ruppert Brewing Co., whose founder was the original owner of the New York Yankees, last week purchased the championship Boston Celtics basketball team, and earlier this month National Beer became majority stockholder in the Baltimore Orioles. Budweiser owns St. Louis' baseball Cardinals and Falstaff owns part of the football Cardinals. In addition, many beermen are seeking more effective ad campaigns by shuffling agencies; in one of the best...
Memory Lane. So far, the coaxers consist largely of Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell. Other New Yorkers recall Franklin's five years in Congress, where his absenteeism was to become a campaign issue in 1954. Republican Jacob Javits flattened him in their contest for state attorney general, which prompted Columnist Murray Kempton to write last week: "Roosevelt and his sponsors must hope that enough people remember his father and mother, and have forgotten him." Paul Screvane was much milder. Said he of Frank Jr.: "He is a very decent fellow, but I don't know...