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...Rubicon. Primary states such as Wisconsin and Oregon can now be given less attention, and Nixon will be free to spend more time-and less money-in SUch big population bases as Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, all of perhaps pivotal importance in November. If all three states have favorite sons who have not yet pledged their Miami delegations to Nixon, what is better than doing two jobs for the price of one? No one will be pressured, Nixon insisted; but with Rocky out of the way, more and more of the G.O.P. Governors, not all of them ardent Nixon supporters...
...will not," he said, "try to strong-arm favorite sons who want to wait until the convention before crossing the Rubicon. But of course it could well be that some of them will be reaching the conclusion that they want to get on the team prior to the time that everyone else jumps on. That's the way the political animal works." The pressure, Nixon believes, will now be off him and on the men who lead the delegations -and might want to be remembered favorably in a Nixon administration...
CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS by Theodore H. White. 174 pages. Afheneum...
Perhaps White would have been better advised to tell his political tale as a novel, for his play has little of true theatrical quality. Beyond that, Caesar at the Rubicon is faultless: it has White's usual lucidity of language, and his analysis of Caesar's political dilemma is intelligent and plausible...
...Beginning of Doom. Caesar, at 52, is on the Rubicon, with nine years of conquest behind him; Gaul and its three parts, the German barbarians, the Britons, have all been soundly, brilliantly beaten. Now his spies tell him that the Senators in Rome want to get rid of him as soon as the victory parade is over. Caesar is a visionary; they know it and fear him for it. He wants power to establish order, to set up a world republic; the corrupt bosses want to split the spoils he has won so dearly. Question: Should he return to Rome...