Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though 1960 were already here-and by week's end any lingering doubts that he would play an active part in G.O.P. presidential politics next year had all but vanished. At a Corning press conference, he carefully refrained from disavowing a group of Republican Congressmen, led by New York's Stuyvesant Wainwright, who had announced their intention to enter his name in New Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things in the beginning-but I've got used...
From Albany west to Corning, thence on to Niagara Falls, then the length of the state to Manhattan-630 airway miles in all-whizzed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week, shaking hands, slapping backs, issuing a tireless stream of enthusiastic comment: "Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will...
Even if Governor Rockefeller does decide to avoid a head-on New Hampshire clash with his chief rival, Vice President Richard Nixon, the contest seems sure to come eventually. In fact, Oregon's young Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, visiting in New York last week (and conferring with Rockefeller during his stay), assured newsmen that both Rockefeller and Nixon will be entered in the Oregon presidential primary. Reason: a new Oregon law requiring that the primary ballot carry the names of all candidates-whether "announced or generally advocated...
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...journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before...