• Solution to last week’s puzzle: give Frank Morrissey a $30,000 pension for life and keep him down on the farm.
• Richard Nixon is waging his campaign for the 1968 Republican nomination with a subtlety and thoroughness missing from his 1960 operation. Except for a quick dip at last year’s pre-convention GOP Governors’ Conference in Cleveland, he has kept out of the continuing Republican bloodbath of 1964-65. His service under Eisenhower and his anti-Birch primary campaign of 1962 are his credentials as a nonex-tremist. His loyal support of Barry Goldwater last year and his recent policy pronouncements, firm in foreign policy and anti-statist at home, have won him the tacit support (if not final commitment) of most Republican conservatives. And his willingness to campaign for Republican candidates anywhere at any time has cemented the devotion of the pros who chose him in 1960. The latest Gallup poll gives him nearly twice the rank-and-file support of the next GOP possibility.
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