Word: javitses
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The biggest winner anywhere in the U.S. was New York's kinetic Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who piled up a plurality of nearly 1,000,000. Indeed, Javits did not need a bloc vote-such were his energies, his eloquencies and his abilities that he would probably have won...
Although all he really had to do was send get-well cards to his virus-stricken opponent, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller was running hard, fulfilling a promise to visit each of New York's 62 counties during this year's campaign. Running as hard...
l-Don't-Know Looks. Javits' opponent is even odder. Democratic Senatorial Candidate James Donovan has been acting as the Kennedy Administration's man in Havana, negotiating for the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners. His campaign literature frankly states: "Obviously, Mr. Donovan cannot be in...
And when he starts talking about issues and qualifications, national Democratic leaders swoon in their rocking chairs. Last week, asked about medicare. Donovan replied briskly: "Well, we need a whole new approach.'' What about Kennedy's approach, a program to be financed under Social Security? "Well, the...
In the apparent belief that these negotiations with Communists have appeal to voters, the Kennedy Administration last month backed Donovan, 46, as the Democratic choice to run for the U.S. Senate against Republican Incumbent Jacob Javits. Only a man as determinedly hopeful as Donovan would be willing to take on...