Battle of Millionaires?

Because New York's aging (66) Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.'' As the crowd applauded, Rockefeller, two seats away, grinned broadly. Nelson Rockefeller, second of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., has spent about ten years in Government--most of them in little-publicized hard work. He was Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1944-45), Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1953-54), sparkplug of the Rockefeller Report, and is now adviser on reorganization to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Rockefeller is no professional politician, but he starts with one advantage that few politicians (except Millionaire Harriman) can boast: a name that is already a household word.

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