Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While Mr. Goldwater has been pleading for a prehistoric party platform, while Mr. Rockefeller has been playing partisan politics, while Mr. Nixon has been pushing Pepsi-Cola, and while Mr. Scranton has been patiently standing pat in Pennsylvania, Lodge has been busy doing the job that must be done. He has been practicing Americanism in Saigon while others have been content merely to preach it in the suburbs...
...frustrating months, Republican Nelson Rockefeller never gave up, never stopped swinging. And last week he flattened five rivals in Oregon's presidential primary. The count: Rockefeller 92,142, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 77,334, Barry Goldwater 49,197, Richard Nixon 47,078, Margaret Chase Smith 8,142, William Scranton...
Rocky's smashing upset may not appreciably have changed his chances for this year's Republican nomination. By any reasonable rating, he would still stand behind Goldwater, Nixon, and perhaps Scranton...
Pennsylvania's Scranton was making a series of speeches in the East and tending the shop in Harrisburg, still insisting that he will not become a presidential candidate except in answer to a sincere draft. But just in case anyone doubted that he had the stamina and agility it takes, he said he'd been taking the R.C.A.F. conditioning exercises, and demonstrated some high-level nip-ups for a photographer. At week's end he was off to New York with his family for a tour of the World's Fair...
...over the field for an able, available alternative to Goldwater. But they didn't find much, and that discouraged them. "You don't have any kingmakers," said General Lucius Clay, "unless you have someone to make a king out of." The most likely possibility seemed to be Scranton. And among those who cast hopeful glances in his direction were Leonard Hall, a former G.O.P. National Chairman and one of the party's most astute politicians; New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney; and Trib President Walter Thayer, a big Nixon fund raiser in 1960. But Scranton...