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...leadership, vigor and fighting spirit he displayed reminded politicians that, although Barry Goldwater is still well ahead in the race for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1964, Rocky knows how to run. And outside the meeting rooms of the conference, the New York Governor showed that despite the steep drop in his popularity rating after his remarriage, he is still a political personality. Again and again at Miami Beach, the beaming Governor and his smiling wife Margaretta were surrounded by eager autograph seekers. They did not even need to sign their last name-they just scrawled "Rocky" and "Happy...
Only a few months ago it seemed to many Republicans that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was virtually certain to get the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. But after his remarriage, the polls showed a steep and swift decline in his popularity. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater suddenly became the front runner, and by an impressively wide margin. Governor Rockefeller had to do something, and last week...
Electricity for All. Construction will take 15 years, and the initial cost will be steep-more than $1 billion, including the tab for a 250,000-kw. generating station on the upper St. John River. The whole cost will be borne by the U.S. But proponents believe that the eventual usage will make it worthwhile. New England and Canada's Maritime provinces currently pay 6.36 mills per kw-h for power; Quoddy power, it is said, will cost only 4 mills per kwh. The vast complex of dams and locks should draw an army of tourists and have...
...From the steep stone bleachers of Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, the skinny conductor who walked onto the outdoor stage last week seemed miles away. But once he began conducting, Seiji Ozawa caught every eye. As exhilarating as the final accelerando of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony were the dancelike body movements with which Ozawa conducted it. His expressive left hand seemed everywhere, searching out the lyrical underpinnings of Borodin's Second. He found them, and New York critics unanimously agreed that musically little Seiji was a giant in the making...
...produce four-way stomach upset. Six Flags, near Dallas, has the Aserradero (Spanish for sawmill), with a water flume ride that puts four passengers into a hollow log, runs them under a circular saw, shoots them along a rapids, finally abandons them to the simple trauma of a steep downhill sluicing...