Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dreaming or Leading? Every time Goldwater has spoken on the nuclear issue, his political critics, both Democratic and Republican, have leaped into the argument. Before the Republican Convention in San Francisco, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, then running for the G.O.P. presidential nomination himself, asked: "What does it mean to be a conservative? Does it mean you must be a trigger-happy dreamer in a world that wants from America not slogans but sane leadership?" Again, Scranton said of Goldwater: "He says the decision to unleash nuclear war should be made not by the President but by the commanders...
...Gettysburg, the first of which, on national defense and foreign policy, will be shown this week. Richard Nixon spoke out for Goldwater last week at the Michigan Republican Convention, will open a five-week 30-state national speaking tour for him early in October. Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton will plug the ticket in eight states besides his own in 31 days of speechmaking. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton is swinging through at least a dozen states to proclaim his "wholehearted support of Goldwater and Miller...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 58th Street in 1927, the $18 million Savoy Plaza became one of the world's most luxurious hotels. A favorite of aristocrats, diplomats and cinema stars, it has been host to the likes of the King of Nepal, Adlai Stevenson, William Scranton, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and Groucho Marx. The Savoy also captured the fancy of a darkly handsome British real estate tycoon named Max Rayne. Two years ago he bought one-third of the hotel from William Zeckendorf, later bought the whole thing when Zeckendorf became even harder pressed for cash...
...campaign organization and made his opening moves toward party unity. He named a steering committee that included two of the G.O.P.'s most highly regarded tacticians, former National Chairman Leonard Hall and Ohio's State Chairman Ray Bliss. He also phoned his convention foe, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, arranged a Republican "summit meeting" next week in Hershey, Pa., and invited key Republicans to attend...
...also best in coming up with offbeat sidebars, finding good material in unobvious quarters. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, for example, put in some fine moments on CBS sketching the faces of Goldwater and Scranton, making comments on the characters of each as he felt them coming up through his pencil. He showed how Goldwater's glasses make him look better, whereas glasses on Scranton "kill him dead, make him look like an English teacher." CBS also scored what amounted to a news beat when Cronkite was the first to get Governor Scranton to say that he had not read...