European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday August 5, 1968 the stars and stripes b Page f favorite sons not really that favored Henry j. Taylor the Miami it a Hilton Richard Alwn Terri by. 0udest Nois in � a Losion of the favorite on. Nixon opponent and Many others have claimed for months that the Outlook a. For a brokered convention Ono in which no one has enough strength to win until protracted shifts in the progressive ballots As a result of changes in Delegate sentiment combined with horse trading. The picture painted was an image of 1940. At that Conven Tion 13 men won votes on the first ballot before Wendell i. Willkie managed to Nail Down the nomination on the sixth. Such claims were based on the favorite son gimmick which is sometimes legitimate Ronald Reagan but ordinarily of course merely lets the politician stay Neutral bargaining All the while until he thinks he spots the win Ner. Cor this top convention 15 men controlling 666 votes one Short of the 667 needed for any body to win announced that they would come to Miami Beach a favorite sons. Gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller was one. But even in that stance he suffered from a Handi Cap at this party conclave. Al though the Able Rockefeller has been governor of new York for 10 years he has n o t strengthened the Republican party in his own state. Before his election As Gover nor new York sent 26 republicans and 17 democrats to the House of representatives. Today new York sends 15 republicans and 26 democrats to Washington. This especially disturbs party leaders in Miami Beach for the 1966 nationwide Republican Vic tory was a Victory in depth. Knowledge is Power but the Power that politicians respect is the Power of Public office and in that election the republicans gained 47 congressmen. Moreover and this is Hurt ing Rockefeller even More 55 of the 82 congressmen that Nixon campaigned for in 1966 were elected along with 10 of 13 senators and 10 of 12 governors. It is commonly said in the Republican party that the big 1966 Winner was Nixon. In contrast Rockefeller not Only repudiated the Republican party s 1964 presidential Candi Date but campaigned for practically nobody outside new York state in 1966. Heading for Miami Beach Michi Gan gov. George Romney began As a favorite son. Largely due to the sponsorship of favorite son Rockefeller he changed to candidate status. But poised for the new Hampshire primary rom Ney ended up like the eager sprinter shot by the starter s gun. He withdrew. Rockefeller had hinted a few Days earlier that he himself might run after All. And now he is Here but not in the Phalanx of the favorite sons. Powerful Texas sen. John g. Tower has vanished As a favor Ite son. So has consequential South Carolina sen. Strom thur mond. So has Illinois sen Charles h. Percy. So has Oregon gov. Mark Hatfield. Even Florida gov. Claude Kirk he who did the incredible thing of running for vice president As a favorite son is a favorite son no More no More. The whole highly touted out look and All claims for months on end about the forthcoming Rule at the convention by favorite sons has folded like a deck chair and hit the floor. Instead Many of the prospective favorite sons who Are governors or prospective governors to whom i have talked have closed ranks against the gop s common enemy the democratic party. They predict and i find that most democrats concede a november gain of at least five gop governorships on top of the 10 gained in 1966, which brought the republicans the majority of governorships 26. These Are in democratic split Indiana Illinois where a Strong Republican opposes new gov. Samuel h. Shapiro Iowa ver Mont and new Hampshire where popular democratic governors Are stepping aside. Republicans see possible Vic tory in four More Republican rep. Arch a. Moore s West Vir Ginia gubernatorial race and equally favored candidates1 runs in Delaware Kansas and North Dakota. As for holding present gop governorships which they Call Tough these Are in Arkansas Montana Washington and wis Consin and appear promising. C United feature Syndicate How about a joiners club by Norton Mockridge americans of course Are the greatest joiners in the world. They la join anything that does t join them first. I be always known this but i never realized what a fantastically wild and far Flung affliction it is. I be just been going through a Book called the encyclopedia of associations which indicates that millions upon millions of americans Are members of thou Sands upon thousands of clubs organizations societies and associations. The Book itself published by Gale research co. Of Detroit lists Only 13,600 nonprofit National organizations in its 1,331 pages. But As you can imagine for each of these National organizations there Are scores of Little neighbourhood City or state out fits that Are just As Active. It would take a set of books larger than the encyclopedia Britan Nica to list them All. There s just about every kind of association you can think of in this eight Pound catalogue proving what the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville said when he made a study of our country More than 100 years ago americans of All Ages All conditions and All dispositions constantly form one of the most interesting associations in the Book is the orangutan recovery service. Founded in 1965, this Organiza Tion is trying to restore the dwindling population of orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo to find Good Homes for Young Oran Gutan orphans and to Stop the smuggling of the apes to Singa pore where they Black Market for As much As $2,400 each. There s the Large families of America association which is fighting to get Quantity discounts for families with five or More kids and there s the society for cryobiology which studies Micro bes at Low temperatures. This new edition of the encyclopedia it s the fifth reveals that the old people to Ali opinions expressed in the columns tho�ac1f on we Paa present to a c a and a in no Way View Aldere 1 Ropque Tinne it is Star and strip i a or i United 6ut Gavern Roenau people committee on fungi which sponsors Field trips for Amateur mushroom Hunters has adopted the More dignified and palatable name of North american mycological association. Better to be mycological than fungi. There s a world association for celebrating the year 2000 which i Don t think i la bother joining and there s an outfit called Mars. Has nothing to do with the planet. It s the military affiliate radio system with 15, 000 Ham radio operators As members. And in addition to the old standby alcoholics Anonymous there now Are gamblers Anonymous divorce Anonymous and addicts narcotics Anonymous. Also there s the Anonymous arts recovery society which goes around saving Stone ornaments from demolished buildings. The Philumena casts matchbook collectors have an organization known As the Rathkamp match cover society and the haunt Hunters is a club that collects reports of ghosts and psychic Phenomena. Then there s the Loyal league of yiddish sons of Erin. It has 45 members of the jewish Faith who were born in Ireland and they have a ban Quet every year on the eve of St. Patrick s Day. The Littlest club is the aromatic red Cedar closet lining manufacturers association. It has just four members. But the burlesque historical society does t have any members at All. It s just Paul Toepp of Detroit who is trying to build a burlesque museum and a burlesque Hall of Fame. Or. Toepp also seems to be the guiding spirit of the exo Tique dancers league of North America which has 300 strippers Burles que dancers and other assorted Eddy Siats. The exo Tique league has two main goals to promote and improve the image of a Fine old american tradition and to give the Back of its hand to those miserable characters topless waitresses. Only one sad note in the whole encyclopedia. Founded in 1935 and most Active season after season the Northern in Diana muck crop growers association is now defunct. C 1%8. United features Syndicate inc. I m one of those to the too d a or k during 4 f a w l w o i an election year such is the stuff dreams Are made of i thought of calling this piece couples but readers of John Updike might have been misled. So let us talk quite simply about a number of possible dream teams. A dream team is one that a candidate and his supporters dream about because it is the perfect pairing not in the Ameri can sense of a love match but As a Continental marriage of convenience that Ful fills completely what both part ners want. Each gives the other the one thing he lacks on terms acceptable to both and most of their followers. This is roughly True of almost All political presidential pairings but a dream team is one which if it could be nominated could scarcely fail to be elected. The two obvious dream teams Are for the democrats a Hubert Humphrey Edward Kennedy ticket and for the republicans a Nel son Rockefeller Ronald Reagan ticket. Humphrey needs the kind of bolstering with the Antiwar groups that a Kennedy on his ticket would give him and the Kennedy strength now right after Robert Kennedy s death is greater than it is Likely to be four years from now. The Nixon Camp is talking of a is. Charles Percy and Mark Hatfield and of gov. George Romney but none of the three is dramatic enough to give Nixon the strength he needs outside the party. Rockefeller would As i have said. Mayor John Lindsay would too and a Nixon Lindsay ticket is my fourth dream ticket. A fifth would be Nixon and a Liberal negro if Nixon were bold enough to risk losing his Southern support which will prob ably go to George Wallace any Way. I think of someone like Whitney Young a moderate n 19oi, lot Aii Jef a t no
