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...average delegate to an American political convention has a remarkable chameleon-like quality which allows him to turn back from a back-stabbing wheeler dealer into a docile party regular in about as much time as it takes to say "William Scranton." The Republican convention will commence in San Francisco in mid-July and a roseterous imbroglio, even by Democratic Party standards, appears imminent...
...Lose? Goldwater and Rockefeller were far from being the only Republicans in the presidential news. Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, who until a recent talk with Ike really sounded as though he wanted no part of the White House, now let it be known that he would not request that his name be withdrawn from the Oregon primary if it were entered. Michigan's Governor George Romney still maintained that "I will not be a candidate for the nomination, and I will not seek it." But he scheduled a series of out-of-state speeches and television appearances...
...pants. It seems to be a characteristic gesture, but he has to suck his breath in hard to accomplish it: the former 100-pound high school basketball player occasionally seems to forget that he now carries a portly 185 pounds. What did he think of Pennsylvania Gov. William G. Scranton's chances? Scranton, he agreed, is the man to beat. "He has all the party professionals behind him, and while Nixon has grass-roots following, he can't convince the pros." Governor Brown said that Goldwater was badly hurt, in California as well as the South, by President Kennedy...
...Young Democrats, Brown labelled some of Senator Goldwater's proposals as "bordering on the ridiculous" and said "it worries me that this man might become President." He did not think, however, that either Goldwater or Nelson Rockefeller would win the Republican nomination, but that Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton had a "good chance...
...inclusive. Governor Scranton was just one of a bevy of Republican presidential contenders whom pundits measured like handicappers at a racetrack. Sample form sheet, from Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jack Steele: "Goldwater still the front runner. . . Rocke feller's chances seem to have been helped little, if any, by the sag in Goldwater's fortunes. . . Nixon has gained most on the surface, but has stirred little enthusiasm among party pros." As for Scranton and Ambassador Lodge, Steele saw "no sign that either has stirred masses of voters...