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...Senatorial race, Judge Marlow Cook, a Republican, defeated the Democrat, Katherine Peden, to keep possession of Thruston Morton's seat...
...Mission Bay resort, talked by phone with John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller, inviting Rocky to his Fifth Avenue apartment (which, as it happens, is right next door to the Governor's) this week for a chat on his role in the campaign. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, an early Rockefeller man, was named a special assistant to the candidate, with a reserved seat on the campaign plane. New York's Senator Jacob Javits and Mayor John...
...Wednesday, seats in the amphitheater are filled early. Convention Chairman Thruston Morton gavels the delegates to order. Ted Kennedy strides to the platform, and after a frenetic ten-minute ovation nominates Nelson Rockefeller for President. After an hour's floor demonstration, Allard Lowenstein, chairman of the New York delegation, moves that the delegates nominate Rockefeller by acclamation, and the delegates respond without a single dissenting vote...
...Senate. By nearly 35,000 votes, Katherine Peden, 42, a former state commerce commissioner and the only woman member of the President's riots commission, defeated her closest opponent in a field of twelve candidates to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Republican Thruston Morton, who is retiring. Miss Peden, who owns a Kentucky radio station, set off the morning after her victory to campaign against Jefferson County Judge Marlow Cook, the Republican nominee. Despite Kentucky's G.O.P. leanings, Miss Peden is given an even chance of beating Cook, a Roman Catholic...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, who was instrumental in organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than...