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Covering Nelson Rockefeller from handshake to handshake in Oregon last week, Correspondent Nick Thimmesch realized that quite a lot was happening. Nick has been following Rockefeller ever since the New York Governor set out on the campaign for the 1964 Presidential nomination, and he knows how the candidate performs and what reaction follows.* And so, at midweek, he cast a sidewise glance at the polls that unanimously predicted a victory for Henry Cabot Lodge, and sent the editors in New York a wire: "There is a strong flow toward Battling Nelson...
Manhattan Attorney Richard Nixon, 50, relaxed, settled back on his office sofa, and for some 50 minutes talked freely to TIME'S New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch about the 1964 Republican presidential nomination...
Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil rode with Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton on an official visit to a mental institution, and New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch went aboard a cancerbenefit gambling ship with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his bride. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele drove out to Gettysburg for a two-hour interview with an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. Reporter Steele found the former President profoundly committed to the proposition that another Republican should move into the White House in 1965, and equally convinced that the contest for the nomi nation should be wide open...
...Thimmesch spent so many hours last week before and after the fight with Clay that he no longer had to suspect that some publicity man must be making up Clay's vivid quotes. He ended the week helping out with the cooking in Clay's Louisville bachelor quarters, and enjoying himself on "the kind of assignment you don't have to concentrate on, just endure-just keeping up with...
Back in his Detroit days, Thimmesch used to spend his spare time judging boxing matches, earned his professional license, and in one close fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Wilfie Greaves gave the decision to Sugar Ray by one point...