New York: More Zig than Zag

"I'm a winner!" shouted Industrialist Howard Samuels, who calls himself "the poor man's millionaire." "I will be nominated on the first ballot," predicted Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who recalled that his first New World forebear ran for public office in the 1690s. "I think I'm the only man," said New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, who was waiting for his rivals to evacuate Page One before formally announcing his own candidacy.

Each of the three Democrats is convinced that he can defeat New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller ("the rich man's millionaire,"...

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