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Goldwater's biggest headache in the Granite State is not Rockefeller, Lodge, Stassen, or writeins for Nixon and Scranton. What hurts is the seemingly frivolous candidacy of an ambitious lady senator with whom he has been playing footsie for months, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine...
...Bill Scranton, too, delivered a punchy speech. Said he: "The Republican Party was born to save the Union, and we did just that. The Republican Party was made to move, not to stand, to be positive, not to negate, to create, not to destroy. We seek hearts and hands and votes-not because politic, is the science of scratching backs, but because politics is the art of serving a nation...
Dwight Eisenhower spoke from Detroit, Nelson Rockefeller from Los Angeles, George Romney from Washington, William Scranton from Indianapolis, Barry Goldwater from Pittsburgh, and Richard Nixon from New York City. Each spoke briefly-with varying success-but Nixon gave the most polished performance...
...Unconvincing Outcome. Maggie's entry into the New Hampshire race, along with burgeoning write-in campaigns for Nixon, Scranton and Henry
With five judgeships to fill, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton in an unusual, administrative action has borrowed a leaf from the Missouri Plan by appointing a seven-man (three lawyers, three laymen, one judge) Judicial Nominating Commission to recommend candidates (all vacancies are in Philadelphia). The judges Scranton finally chooses will face the voters when their terms run out, but they can expect the bipartisan support now given to most Philadelphia judges. By specifying that the nominating commission is to list three names for each vacancy, Scranton should avoid the unhappy quandary of New York's Mayor Wagner...