Other Key Republicans to Watch in Miami Beach

THE Republican Convention will be coordinated and run by a group of trusted Nixon men. Among them:

JOHN MITCHELL. The President's closest political adviser, former Attorney General and 1968 campaign manager has no official role at the convention: as director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, his preoccupation goes beyond the convention to shaping Richard Nixon's campaign. But Mitchell, 58, has been closely supervising all convention arrangements in coordination with the White House staff. In the unlikely event of trouble, Mitchell will be in the front rank of the fire fighters.

ROBERT J. DOLE. Nixon has few advocates in the Congress as determinedly --and sometimes abrasively--loyal as the 48-year-old wickedly witty first-term Senator from Kansas, who is Republican national chairman. "As far as I know, the Senator has no hobbies," says one of his aides. "What he's most interested in is getting other Republicans elected." Dole will preside over the first session.

GERALD FORD. As in 1968, the House minority leader from Michigan will be the Miami Beach convention's chairman. Ford, 58, was mentioned as a running mate for Nixon in 1960 and for Goldwater in 1964. He and the President are close friends.

HUGH SCOTT. The Senate minority leader, 71, has always viewed himself as a conciliator among his Republican colleagues--a talent for which there is likely to be little need in Miami Beach. He will keep busy as the President's convention floor manager.

JOHN J. RHODES. The first Republican ever to be elected Representative from Arizona, Rhodes, 55, is the chairman of the Platform Committee. He has predicted that while the platform will be as representative as possible of all streams in the party, the convention will probably become involved in some disputes over fiscal policy and various welfare proposals.

ROBERT KNOWLES. As the convention manager, he could not be happier about the logistical advantages of following the Democrats into Miami Beach's modernistic Convention Hall. A state senator from Wisconsin, Knowles, 56, carried the major burden of making up for the seven weeks the Republicans lost in their convention preparations when they had to switch location from California to Florida in the wake of the ITT brouhaha.

EDWARD W. BROOKE. The Republicans may have one keynote speaker or several, each addressing himself to a particular issue. Almost certain to play some keynote role is the junior Senator from Massachusetts. Brooke, 52, would be given that assignment in the hope of breaking up what often appears to be the Democratic monopoly of black support.

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