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Rockefeller backers close to panic. At emergency meeting in Washington last week they told Rocky he’d have to make move, and make it soon, and make it undrafty or Nixon would get nomination. Romney warned he can’t hold his Michigan delegates in line much longer; Clifford Case said same about New Jersey. Gov. Shafer of Pennsylvania, badly burned when Rocky made his first I-am-not-running statement, is cool, cool, cool. Said a spokesman: “Gov. Shafer is not antagonistic toward Rockefeller, but he will not join in any movement to stop any candidate.” . . . Also at meeting: Senators Javits, Brooke, Morton and Cooper (Ky.) . . . Nixon aides privately admit their worry: they feel Nixon’s campaign against no professed opponent is losing steam, despite 3-1 victory over Rockefeller in Pennsylvania last week. . . . Reagan’s aides say he’ll make campaign swing touching Florida, Chicago and Cleveland third week in May to reconnoiter the lay of the land; he has broken precedent and chartered a press plane for the jaunt.

Have you noticed: growing talk of a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket at Chicago? James Reston mentioned it in N.Y. Times, Gov. John Connally of Texas tried it out for size. Rationale: Kennedy isn’t catching fire the way his backers expected; McCarthy (vide Pennsylvania, where he ran 9-1 ahead of Bobby) is doing better than expected; party pros, and labor, forming up behind HHH.

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Rockefeller backers close to panic. At emergency meeting in Washington last week they told Rocky he’d have to make move, and make it soon, and make it undrafty or Nixon would get nomination. Romney warned he can’t hold his Michigan delegates in line much longer; Clifford Case said same about New Jersey. Gov. Shafer of Pennsylvania, badly burned when Rocky made his first I-am-not-running statement, is cool, cool, cool. Said a spokesman: “Gov. Shafer is not antagonistic toward Rockefeller, but he will not join in any movement to stop any candidate.” . . . Also at meeting: Senators Javits, Brooke, Morton and Cooper (Ky.) . . . Nixon aides privately admit their worry: they feel Nixon’s campaign against no professed opponent is losing steam, despite 3-1 victory over Rockefeller in Pennsylvania last week. . . . Reagan’s aides say he’ll make campaign swing touching Florida, Chicago and Cleveland third week in May to reconnoiter the lay of the land; he has broken precedent and chartered a press plane for the jaunt.

Have you noticed: growing talk of a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket at Chicago? James Reston mentioned it in N.Y. Times, Gov. John Connally of Texas tried it out for size. Rationale: Kennedy isn’t catching fire the way his backers expected; McCarthy (vide Pennsylvania, where he ran 9-1 ahead of Bobby) is doing better than expected; party pros, and labor, forming up behind HHH.