"I Shall Go to Chicago ..."

P: After saying last January that he expected to lead New York's 96-vote delegation to the G.O.P. Convention in Chicago, and writing Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in May that he "would not attend in any capacity" because his "mere attendance could be misconstrued," Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced that he would lead the New York flock to the Chicago stockyards, after all.* Rocky finally decided the trip was worthwhile after he had been assured that the delegates would be pledged to no candidate, and that nobody in Chicago was going to ask him to be Vice President. P: After saying in January 1959 that he needed $277 million in new taxes to put New York in the black, and scoffing at Republicans and Democrats who warned that he was vastly underestimating revenue, Rockefeller acknowledged that New York is on the brink of a $90 million budget surplus. That being the case, said he at a crowded G.O.P. $100-a-plate Waldorf dinner. New Yorkers can look forward to a 10% cut in state income taxes in Election Year 1960.

* Minus New York's Tom Dewey, Republican presidential candidate in 1944 and 1948 and a Nixon in '60 man, who will miss his first convention in 20 years because, as he told Rocky with a straight face, he has business appoint ments in Europe.

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