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...first of the candidates to go on the road after the assassination, Rockefeller was, all at once, nearly everywhere. He gave a commencement address at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Governor Raymond Shafer. At the White House, he spent two hours discussing national security problems with President Johnson, Dean Rusk and others...
...Angeles. "There are some hard-core Nixon people," said Tire Heir Leonard Firestone after the meeting, "but there are lots of open-minded people." At week's end Rocky was at the Republican Governors' Conference in Tulsa, Okla., where he finally won the endorsement of Shafer, who will bring him 40 to 50 of Pennsylvania's 64 convention votes...
...moment, the prospects for Rockefeller's success hinge on state leaders rather than on statesmanship. Several nominally uncommitted G.O.P. Governors, such as Ohio's James Rhodes and Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, privately favor Rockefeller. He must prove to these and other favorite sons that he can keep enough delegates out of Nixon's net between now and August to merit their support. Rockefeller must also rekindle the ardor of other Governors who have been chilled by his recent to-ing and froing...
...states, puts out a bimonthly newspaper called Freedom in Education. Through its local chapters, CEF issues calls for public pressure on legislators whenever a bill affecting nonpublic schools is at issue; its supporters faithfully respond by inundating lawmakers with telegrams and letters. One day last November, Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer was deluged with 100,000 telegrams from CEF enthusiasts supporting a parochial pupil aid bill. The Michigan CEF arranged for Catholic schools to give students a homework-free night-on the condition that each wrote six letters to legislators urging passage of CEF proposals...
...that all six became totally blind. Authority for the story was Norman M. Yoder, 53, commissioner of the Office for the Blind in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare. He stood by it after his informal report to Washington got out. A state senator and Governor Raymond P. Shafer backed it up at news conferences. The six, said Yoder, were all getting state...