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...thrown out of the G.O.P. "The present party leadership," he said, "must be replaced -all of it." Some moderates were upset over reports that the G.O.P. had wound up the 1964 campaign with a $1,200,000 surplus instead of the usual deficit, suggested that the money was withheld to strengthen Goldwater's grip on the party...
Richard Nixon would obviously like to be the heir. After last week's defeat, he called for a calm reappraisal and criticized those who had withheld full support from the national ticket, in particular Governor Rockefeller ("A spoilsport, a party-divider"). During the campaign, Nixon stumped the whole country, recementing his ties with local politicians and boosting their morale in the face of generally poor leadership from the national committee...
...last year's Greater Boston cross-country championships, Harvard Coach Bill McCurdy withheld his best six runners and the Crimson still finished second. This year McCurdy is going all out for the title, and his decision has sent tremors from Newton to the Fenway...
...Withheld Endorsement. On the Republican side, carpetbagging was not the issue, but there was plenty of dissidence nonetheless. Incumbent Keating, with big convention send-offs from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Jacob Javits, Dick Nixon and Tom Dewey, received his party's nomination by acclamation. Only the day before, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce had declined the New York Conservative Party's invitation to run as a third Senate candidate -one who might easily draw enough votes away from Keating to cause his defeat...
...White Americans must go out of their way to give Negroes a helping hand; merely allowing them long-withheld civil rights is not enough. They must provide public education for Negro children at an earlier age-at three or four. By the time the children are five or six, an overcrowded, oppressive home life has stifled their impulse to learn and made them much less alert than comparable white children. Corporations must set job quotas for Negroes, give them on-the-job training, even put up with impaired efficiency until the Negroes are trained...