Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater was at sea much of last week, ostensibly in retirement during the Democratic Convention.
Yet during most of his five days aboard the borrowed 83-ft. yacht Sundance, bobbing in the Pacific off the California coast, Barry stubbornly refused to let any controversies die out, and even created new ones. One day, leaning against the yacht's railing, and wearing brilliant orange-red pants, a white terry-cloth shirt, and a day's growth of beard, he welcomed reporters aboard for a press conference.
He admitted that his own polls have him trailing...