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...impressive four-day gathering of law yers and informed laymen last week at the University of Chicago's Center for Continuing Education. Held under the auspices of the American Bar Associa tion and the American Assembly,*the meeting, titled "Law and the Changing Society," brought together Southern practitioners, Midwestern judges, Western prosecutors, Wall Street senior partners, law professors and law students, and such outside observers as Author Martin Mayer (The Lawyers). Dean Manning's job was to start a self-critical fire under the conferees...
McCarthy leaders here feel that the two anti-war presidential candidates can gather more than half of the vote in this conservative midwestern state...
...school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes, deplaned to begin organizing up to 25,000 fresh Midwestern volunteers pouring in from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa-not to mention a goodly number of the Badger State's 70,000-odd resident students. As in New Hampshire, few of the volunteers had any political experience, and one veteran said: "Some of their instruction will have...
Votes & Headlines. But which track? It was still early enough for Rockefeller to enter the Wisconsin, Indiana and Nebraska primaries. To do so would take enormous energy and bravery-some said foolhardiness-because he would be exposing himself to conservative animosity, with virtually no chance of victory. Midwestern Republican leaders questioned by TIME supported this view. The Midwest is essentially Nixon country, and although it contains pockets of Rockefeller sentiment, the leaders agreed that the risks would be far too large. Oregon Governor Tom McCall, who had earlier announced a write-in campaign for Rockefeller in his state, invited...
...Rockefeller is the G.O.P.'s most electable candidate, he is also its least nominatable one. His short-lived attempt to derail Nixon in 1960 and his failure to back Barry Goldwater in 1964 still rankle among party workers. Said one Midwestern G.O.P. state chairman: "If Rocky reaches for the nomination, a thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention...