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Comparison shopping is the housewife's sole-searing equivalent of a bureaucrat's requesting sealed bids from competing contractors. But there are times when something gets lost in the translation, as Mary Scranton, 46, wife of Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, found to her sorrow when she submitted a $1,554 bill to the state for some rust-patterned draperies made for her husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain...
...February 1964, it issued a "Call to Leadership," appealing to moderates to unite against the Arizona Senator. After Goldwater won the California primary and Republican governors caucused in Cleveland, the Society made another appeal in a "confidential memorandum" sent to prominent Republicans including Governors Rockefeller, Scranton, and Romney--and leaked to the press. It predicted that "Goldwater as nominee would bring on wholesale slaughter of the Republican party," adding that a "latent anti-civil rights vote" would not materialize and that a Goldwater ticket would devastate many local organizations...
Only a week before the National Convention opened, a small group--some of whom were on their way to San Francisco to work for Scranton and Rockefeller--met in Ripon, Wis. (the small town where the Republican party was supposedly founded and from which the Society takes its name. They condemned a Goldwater strategy "that must inevitably exploit the 'white backlash' to the civil rights movement...
...Wright Potman, 71, announced proudly from Bethesda Naval Hospital that he had a cold "just like the President's." Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 62, checked into Walter Reed Army Hospital with laryngitis, followed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, with a "respiratory infection." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, 47, and New York's former Senator Kenneth Keating, 64, were snuffling in Harrisburg and Washington's Georgetown University Hospital respectively, while guess who at week's end was nursing the latest status symbol? H.H.H...
Many leading Republicans had of course been invited, but most of them attended a sort of "uninaugural ball" at the Congressional Hotel, where the dancing was done by, among others, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and William Scranton, who had also gamely ridden in the parade earlier...