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> At City College's Baruch School of Business Administration in New York, delegates argued about whether Martin Luther King, 35, is old enough to be nominated for President (he is), finally picked Scranton, with New York Senator Jacob Javits as Vice President.
> At Ohio University, delegates rode motorcycles through the gymnasium, watched coeds do a striptease, then picked Henry Cabot Lodge and Michigan's Governor George Romney.
* In 1956, the Washington and Lee keynoter was former Vice President Alben W. Barkley, who uttered his last sentence—"I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than sit in the seats of the mighty''—and fell dead at the podium.