Because New York's aging (66) Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.''...
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