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With the notable exceptions of Richard Nixon and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, the leading contenders for the G.O.P. nomination were all ticketed for the trip-New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Michigan's George Romney and California's Ronald Reagan. And there were enough potential vice-presidential candidates to create a traffic jam on the promenade deck. Among them: Massachusetts' John Volpe, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Ohio's James Rhodes, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, Colorado's John Love, New Mexico's David Cargo, Washington's Daniel Evans, even Nelson...
After he was elected mayor of New York City as a fusion candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties in 1965, John Vliet Lindsay pledged a nonpartisan administration. Republican Nelson Rockefeller could have used some cam paign support from the mayor in last year's gubernatorial race, but Lindsay blandly observed that his office was above politics and for the most part kept his silence...
...foreign policy. Some of Lindsay's friends think that John Lindsay would make an ideal running mate for Percy, but the mayor maintained that he had no desire to crowd himself into the picture. Another of his strong favorites for the presidency, Lindsay allowed, would be Nelson Rockefeller. The endorsement was diplomatic, since Lindsay and Rockefeller have lost no love on each other since the mayor took office...
...fourth runs of the series, the last on a line single by Roger Maris, that Yankee cast-off who now hustles like a rookie for the Cards, with three hits and three RBIs in the first three games of the series. The real glory boy, though, was Righthander Nelson Briles, 24, until last week a journeyman speed-bailer with only four complete games all season. He allowed the Red Sox seven hits and two runs, but for nine long innings last week no one could fault him in the clutch-least of all Carl Yastrzemski, whom he forced into ground...
...dozen years ago to wipe Thomas E. Dewey's shoe polish from their faces," writes Shannon, has any politician enjoyed so promising an opportunity to make his influence felt. But Bobby has written "a record of defeat, inconsequence and confused purposes" in the state. And, warns Shannon, "if Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits and John Lindsay can defeat Robert Kennedy's party in New York, they may be the men to defeat it in the nation...