Word: robert
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...started to draft a platform acceptable to Nelson Rockefeller, Percy had to hold off insistent pressures from the Old Guard led by Arizona's outspoken Senator Barry Goldwater, who inherited the late Robert Taft's role as the golden boy of Republican conservatism. Where the hearts of the Platform Committee's members lay was vividly evident in the contrasting receptions they gave Rockefeller and Goldwater last week. They listened to Rockefeller with polite attention, never once interrupted him with applause. When Goldwater appeared later the same day to urge the committee to shun the "destructive idea that...
...Nixon camp's ho-?es that the platform carpentered by Chuck Percy would satisfy Nelson Rockefeller got a bruising jolt toward wask's end. ''The Governor," announced Rockefeller Press Secretary Robert L. McManus, "is deeply concerned that the drafts on a number of matters?including national defense, foreign policy and some critical domestic issues?are still seriously lacking in strength and specifics." Clearly implied was a floor fight that might scar the G.O.P. and furnish invaluable ammunition for the Democrats...
...American people have responded and will respond to the leadership of a political party which evidences a healthy regard for the people's money," said Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson to the Republican platform committee last week. And as a monument to the Eisenhower Administration's healthy regard, Anderson & Co. posted a $1.1 billion surplus for the 1960 fiscal year (closing June 30). By snapping back into the black after 1959's peacetime record deficit of $12.4 billion, the U.S. actually realized a year-to-year improvement of some $13.5 billion, which itself is a record...
...professional diplomat, Robert H. Thayer, will join Don K. Price, professor of Government, in Monday's open meeting, "International Educational and Cultural Relations: The Boundaries of Action--Governmental and Private." The lecture will start at 8:30 p.m. in Burr...
Died. Chesser M. Campbell, 62, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and president of the Tribune Co. (a complex of 14 corporations including two shipping lines and the New York Daily News) since 1955, top man of the triumvirate that replaced the irreplaceable Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of heart disease; in Baie Comeau, Que. A onetime subscription solicitor who spent much of his 39-year Trib career as the paper's shrewd, aggressive advertising manager, Campbell once received a memo from the colonel's walnut-paneled office stating, "We carry a line over the classified ad section reading...