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...that 25 of the Senate's 36 Republicans might show up to offer various degrees of support for his candidacy; only 17 appeared, most of them clearly cool to a Rockefeller presidency. Only Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, New York's Javits and Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who hoped to be Rocky's campaign manager) were openly declared Rocky supporters. What rent the Rock more than anything was the suggestion from several of his guests that he should enter the race in order to keep the Republican campaign from being overshadowed by the three-way Democratic...
...Romney reaction reflected a widespread sense of deflation and even resentment on the part of G.O.P. moderates. "I'm not often fooled," said Thrus Morton with tears in his eyes. "Maybe I poor-mouthed his chances too much, but I think he could have been nominated." Still, there were some sobering tactical realities behind Rockefeller's decision. Had he entered the May 28 Oregon primary, his name would almost certainly have had to be re-entered in the Nebraska contest two weeks earlier, and Nebraska is solidly Nixon country. Though Rockefeller preached party unity at every turn...
...Chester, Pa. Started as a boys' school in 1821 and known as Pennsylvania Military College for 73 years, the school was skidding toward bankruptcy before it opened a coed night division in 1954, accepted full-time nonmilitary students in 1958, finally added an all-civilian branch, called Penn Morton College, in 1966. The trustees fought for two years over what to name the combination, finally agreed on PMC to please those alumni who wanted some suggestion of a military designation. Although cadet applications have been dropping for four years and some 100 beds in cadet dorms are now vacant...
...only other Easterner besides Carter to break the domination of Western skiers in these two events was third place winner John Morton of Middlebury College in Vermont...
...from attracting bright young historians, the other two fellowships this year enabled two permanent members of the faculty -- Kenneth Lynn, professor of English, and Morton White, professor of Philosophy--to take leaves of absence. Their studies might have been difficult to finance without the Warren Center's support, however, because of the general unavailability of research funds for historical work approached through the humanities...