Politics: Plans & Perils

It was beginning to look like Rockefeller v. Wagner in 1962, and there were no signs that New York's Republican Governor had lost any of his relish for Rockefeller v. Kennedy in 1964.

Delivering his annual State of the State message to the New York legislature.Rocky last week made a clear bid for the extra 1962 votes that might make him a 1964 Republican showpiece. In so doing he drew campaign-flavor criticism from New York's Mayor Robert Wagner. Said Wagner of the Rockefeller speech: "Never were so many words used to say so little."

Rockefeller called for an...

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