Who's for Whom

P: Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson's younger brother, Bobo's former husband, and biggest wheel in the drive to bring industry to Arkansas, took to radio and TV to announce for Nixon-Lodge in an attempt to get a two-party system going in Orval Faubus' one-party state. P: Aging (87) David O. McKay, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat side by side with Vice President Nixon (in the company of Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson) in the church office in Salt Lake City and said: "I sat by your competitor a few days ago. I said to him, 'If you win, we'll support you.' Today I say to you I hope you are successful.' Though McKay's Nixon endorsement surely would swing much weight with many of the nation's 1,400,000 Mormons (mostly in Utah, Arizona and Idaho), churchmen hastened to point out that the Mormon church has not officially endorsed a presidential candidate since stirring up a great storm by opposing Franklin Roosevelt's third term in 1940.

P:Newspapers for Nixon-Lodge: Chicago's Daily News and Sun-Times; the 19 Scripps-Howard papers; New York's Daily News and Herald Tribune ("an unparalleled combination of demonstrated leadership").

P:Newspapers for Kennedy: the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times, whose arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). P: LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded: "With Nixon and Lodge in charge of U.S. world policy we shall feel both safer and more hopeful." P: Another magazine for Nixon: Farm Journal; for Kennedy, Harper's. P:The residents of rival Crackertown (pop. 463) and Yankeetown (pop. 700), Fla., two miles apart in northwest Florida's Levy County, whooped up their own straw vote for President. Although the combined voter registration is 97% Democratic, Crackertown (51% native-born Floridians) went 52 to 47 for Kennedy, while Yankeetown (80% transplanted) voted 104 to 87 for Nixon.

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