Only 31 days after inaugurating Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New Yorkers who had sown the wind by defeating Democrat Averell Harriman last November got the giddy feeling that they had reaped the political whirlwind. Rockefeller, the broad-shouldered millionaire who started things off by wearing a double-breasted business suit to the traditionally top-hat inauguration (TIME, Jan. 12) continued to blow down precedent.
He ignored recommendations from G.O.P. district leaders, selected mostly nonpolitical educators and businessmen for 45 administrative posts, even kept Averell Harriman's Democratic speechwriter on the state payroll as assistant press...
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