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...might call it PAUSE-for Perplexed and Uncommitted State Executives, said Oregon's Governor Tom McCall, chuckling over his own acronym. Whatever he called it, McCall's proposed society of Republican Governors was intended as a device to keep the party's options open on next year's presidential nominees...
...they should all meticulously refrain from supporting any of the potential contenders until, after "continual pulse feeling," they could all move "in concert toward selection of the Republican who has the best chance of victory next year." If the Governors were thus able to unite behind one man, concluded McCall, their choice would "almost certainly" carry the 1968 G.O.P. convention...
Unturned Key. Few of the Governors could disagree with Rockefeller's sentiment. Yet McCall apparently feared that unless they delayed, the Governors would find themselves inextricably locked in with Romney-though, in fact, the Michigander to date has hardly succeeded in turning the key. More than one Governor appears lukewarm on Romney. Even before he put the letter in the mail, McCall had enthusiastic pledges of support from such bright, attractive moderates as Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, Maryland's Spiro Agnew and New Mexico's David Cargo...
Radcliffe, debunked in McCall's magazine a month ago as the college with the least attractive girls in the nation, has bounced back from this blow and will be featured in the July issue of Mademoiselle...
With that stand-off the matter rests, while the Pope ponders majority and minority reports from his special commission on marriage and birth control. Meanwhile, pressure for action rises from such prominent laymen as Clare Boothe Luce, who in the February McCall's equated the rhythm method's calendar watching with "checked-off love and clocked-out continence...