Bob Taft confidently predicted last winter that he would win 19 or 20 of the state of Washington's 24 delegates. Then the Eisenhower forces went to work. They turned up last week in Spokane with a solid majority of the state convention delegates. The Taft minority threatened to walk out and hold a rump convention of their own. After ten hours of the stormiest politicking the state could remember, the issue was settled by the Ike majority electing 20 delegates, granting 4 to Taft.
Other convention results last week:
ΒΆ At the Maryland convention, the 24 delegates elected were instructed...
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