"Why not shoot for the brass ring?'' asked New Hampshire's Republican Governor Samuel Wesley Powell Jr. "Why not go for the presidency?'' So last week mused Wes Powell, 46, even as he recuperated in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., from a mild heart attack suffered in March. The scoffers could scoff and the skeptics could skept, but Powell was in dead earnest about grabbing for the brass ring in 1964. He had already laid out a set of plans, based mainly on his record as a rip-roaring stump speaker, a perpetual-motion campaigner—and a fellow who has never seemed to...
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