Nation: Stick with Me . . .

The guest speaker was New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the occasion a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for 1,640 Nassau County (Long Island) Republicans. As a token, Dinner Chairman Salvatore Malone provided each diner with a silver dollar encased in plastic—leading Rocky to recall: "It was my grandfather's custom for years to give away dimes. But tonight Sal Malone is giving away dollars. It just shows it pays to stick along with the Republican Party—three generations, dimes to dollars."

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