Republicans: It's the Right Thing'

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New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, after making sounds like a candidate for months, has firmly bowed out of the running, but the failure of anyone to take his place may yet find the Kennedy Administration pressuring him to change his mind. After Wagner's demurrer, the list of Democratic possibilities who wanted no part of Rocky suffered a sudden boom.

Out bowed New York's Deputy Mayor Edward F. Cavanagh; so, in slightly less final tones, did former Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Strengthening Rocky's hand, the Democrats have not even been able to come up with a Senate candidate to face G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits. Desperate for names, Democratic leaders put out word that their choice was U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. then U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow—without even bothering to tell Bunche or Murrow about it first. Embarrassed, both men quickly ruled themselves out of the race.

"Definite & Final." The Rockefeller whom the Democrats seem afraid to face is a different man from the brash young millionaire who upset Harriman in 1958.

Three and one-half years in the governorship have done nothing to lessen his imperturbable self-confidence, but they have added vastly to his knowledge of government and administration. While serving in appointive jobs under three Presidents —and suffering enormous frustrations under Eisenhower—Rockefeller learned one important lesson: that U.S. political power really rests with elective officials. In the New York governorship, he found an ideal vehicle for his talents and energies.