National Affairs: Rock Rolling

When Nixon-for-President men get together in New Hampshire to talk over Richard M. Nixon's prospects in the state's early-bird primary election—the nation's first—next March, they are likely to ask one another, a little worriedly, "How strong is this Dartmouth thing?" The "Dartmouth thing" is the glittering fact that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Dick Nixon's only serious rival for the Republican presidential nomination, is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, which is to New Hampshire what Harvard is to Massachusetts, only more so.*

Last weekend Old Grad Rockefeller ('30) made a trip back to his alma mater for the football game with Holy...