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By Tuesday, the oldest joke in town went like this: Delegate 1: “What do you think of Scranton?” Delegate 2: “Can’t say. Never been there.” . . . Loneliest man in town: Senate Minority Whip Thomas Kuchel of California, sitting alone in the gallery, without a vote in his party’s delegation. … But staging a strong political comeback was fellow Californian William Knowland, publisher of the Oakland Tribune. Knowland, Goldwater’s campaign manager in California and head of the 86-man California delegation, exerted tremendous influence over convention, made his own scoops. … The verdict on George Romney’s last-minute push for the Veepship (like verdict on his fellow Liberals) was too little, too late and who he?

Much publicized Human Rights march drew 20,000 by San Francisco estimates ; 50,000 by New York and CORE estimates. … Prominent among marchers were Operation Abolition vets, Helsinki Class of ‘63 and Ban-the-Bomb alumni…Hardliners grumbled that Lodge, Rocky, Scranton etc. refused to “give Goldwater the works…James Farmer of CORE tried to make up for it. CORE, he said, would direct nationwide campaign of civil disobedience if GOP nominated BG

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By Tuesday, the oldest joke in town went like this: Delegate 1: “What do you think of Scranton?” Delegate 2: “Can’t say. Never been there.” . . . Loneliest man in town: Senate Minority Whip Thomas Kuchel of California, sitting alone in the gallery, without a vote in his party’s delegation. … But staging a strong political comeback was fellow Californian William Knowland, publisher of the Oakland Tribune. Knowland, Goldwater’s campaign manager in California and head of the 86-man California delegation, exerted tremendous influence over convention, made his own scoops. … The verdict on George Romney’s last-minute push for the Veepship (like verdict on his fellow Liberals) was too little, too late and who he?

Much publicized Human Rights march drew 20,000 by San Francisco estimates ; 50,000 by New York and CORE estimates. … Prominent among marchers were Operation Abolition vets, Helsinki Class of ‘63 and Ban-the-Bomb alumni…Hardliners grumbled that Lodge, Rocky, Scranton etc. refused to “give Goldwater the works…James Farmer of CORE tried to make up for it. CORE, he said, would direct nationwide campaign of civil disobedience if GOP nominated BG