Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Romney may not be a hotshot bowler, but he is no quitter. To knock down all ten duckpins at an alley at Franklin, N.H., he took 34 balls. Pursuing his presidential hopes, Romney is proving every whit as persistent. In a valiant effort to blunt the 3-to-l edge enjoyed by Richard Nixon in the Granite State's March 12th Republican primary, Romney last week wound up his first five days of campaigning with 11,826 hands shaken and a firm belief that reports of his imminent political death are premature...
...exhilarated," Romney confessed in his hotel late one night. All day he had tramped relentlessly through snow and ice at 5 m.p.h. to buttonhole voters, or had communed with groups of from 20 to 100 in homes rigged out as Romney headquarters across the state...
...meeting place will often as not be one of some 300 "home headquarters"-private dwellings like the white clapboard crackerbox of University of New Hampshire Professor Glendon Gee in Somersworth (pop. 8,900), where Romney last week whizzed in for a 40-minute foray...
Even so, Granite State voters are traditionally suspect of "outlanders." When Romney accosted a woman in a Persian lamb coat in frosty Manchester (pop. 93,700), she peered at him sharply and asked: "Who are you?" "I'm the Governor of the state of Michigan," he replied. She walked away unimpressed. It will require all of George Romney's considerable campaigning skill to overcome that sort of skepticism-and much more vigor to pursue the presidency beyond New Hampshire...
...Chill Abroad. "Under the new program," maintains Trowbridge, "everyone is sharing the burden-tourism, Government and trade." Outside of Administration circles, that was a lonely view last week. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful George Romney denounced the balance of payments plan as a "major backward move" from free trade, and insisted that Johnson's proposed restrictions on travel "would create a 'Berlin Wall' separating U.S. citizens from the rest of the Atlantic Community." Despite the Administration's globe-hopping efforts, the reaction from abroad turned almost as chilly...