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...Democrats, with an incumbent President, appeared to be headed for snug harbor. New Hampshire, with a relished penchant for turning things topsy-turvy, turned them over once again. When the results were in, the G.O.P. had a clear front runner in Richard Nixon and a long-shot challenger in Nelson Rockefeller. The Democrats, by contrast, had on their hands the most dramatic-and potentially explosive-political situation in decades...
...state office in Wisconsin. As late as 1938, they could claim only eight per cent of the general vote. In 1957, William Proxmire became Wisconsin's second Democratic Senator in the century by capturing the seat left vacant by the death of Joseph McCarthy. The next year, Gaylord Nelson--now also a U.S. Senator--became the second Democratic Governor in the century...
Over 500 Boston area students and faculty members have signed a petition encouraging New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to enter the Oregon Presidential primary...
...Fish are as proficient musically as Joe is lyrically. Barry Nelson, the lead guitar player, who sings most of the group's boisterous songs, David Cohen, the organist, Bruce Barthol on bass, and Chicken Hirsch on the drums are all freaked out to various degrees, all, as Barry put it, "avoiding the draft" (presumably through mental or psychological deferments) and all superb musicians...
...that merely raises "dust and loose paper." A Force 10 gale causes "considerable damage to buildings." Somewhere between the two must be a wind of sufficient force to waft a heavyweight politician into active presidential candidacy. But how to recognize the draft? "It is very difficult, believe me," Nelson Rockefeller admitted last week...