Blitzing New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York last week in an assault on G.O.P. Eastern strongholds, Estes Kefauver ignored noisy Eisenhower enthusiasts among his street-corner crowds and an Oklahoma-born cold that reduced his drawling dramatics to a-hoarse whisper. But the vice-presidential nominee and aides were hard put to ignore what they considered a pointed dig: the absence of New York Democratic bigwigs from the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo area when Kefauver made a one-day stand in upper New York state.
While Estes blasted Richard Nixon and Republican corruption, Campaign Assistant J. Howard McGrath sniped at...
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