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■ Suddenly they’re taking George Wallace seriously, and not liking it: AFL-CIO COPE has produced five-minute documentary to show how awful things are in Wallace’s Alabama, is pushing the theme: “A vote for Wallace is a vote for Nixon.” … In Michigan, a United Labor Committee (Teamsters, Auto Workers, Steelworkers) has been organized to fight Wallace. It intends to blanket the state with a quarter million anti-Wallace flyers, take out fullpage newspaper ads against him, try to pack his rallies with anti-Wallaceites, in short, “to establish a pattern of attack in every state where Wallace tries to run,” says Committee spokesman Robert Holmes. . . . George Meany says right now he thinks Nixon will win and that lots of union voters have been fooled by Wallace because “he’s the best campaigner of this Democratic band that’s been going around.” . . . Gov. John Gilligan of Ohio, an early Muskie supported, says: “George Wallace is out there raising questions of excruciating relevance, and what does Muskie offer? Typical programmatic answers, with the long, involved discussions of details you get in committee.” . . . Says Gov. Kenneth Curtis of Maine: “If George Wallace wins the Democratic nomination, I’m going to hunt for another party.” Curtis still thinks Muskie will make it, but if he does, says Gov. Milton Shapp of Pa., another Muskie man, “it won’t be on the first ballot.” . . . National Observer, which predicted six weeks ago that Muskie would arrive in Miami Beach with 1,282 votes in hand, now says he’ll have 773. . . . As Muskie goes down, McGovern goes up. He predicted to a Marion, Pa. audience a week ago that he would sweep both the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania primaries April 25 and come out of them with the biggest delegate count of the bunch (he’s just two delegates short of Muskie right now). . . . Stephen Sch-

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■ Suddenly they’re taking George Wallace seriously, and not liking it: AFL-CIO COPE has produced five-minute documentary to show how awful things are in Wallace’s Alabama, is pushing the theme: “A vote for Wallace is a vote for Nixon.” … In Michigan, a United Labor Committee (Teamsters, Auto Workers, Steelworkers) has been organized to fight Wallace. It intends to blanket the state with a quarter million anti-Wallace flyers, take out fullpage newspaper ads against him, try to pack his rallies with anti-Wallaceites, in short, “to establish a pattern of attack in every state where Wallace tries to run,” says Committee spokesman Robert Holmes. . . . George Meany says right now he thinks Nixon will win and that lots of union voters have been fooled by Wallace because “he’s the best campaigner of this Democratic band that’s been going around.” . . . Gov. John Gilligan of Ohio, an early Muskie supported, says: “George Wallace is out there raising questions of excruciating relevance, and what does Muskie offer? Typical programmatic answers, with the long, involved discussions of details you get in committee.” . . . Says Gov. Kenneth Curtis of Maine: “If George Wallace wins the Democratic nomination, I’m going to hunt for another party.” Curtis still thinks Muskie will make it, but if he does, says Gov. Milton Shapp of Pa., another Muskie man, “it won’t be on the first ballot.” . . . National Observer, which predicted six weeks ago that Muskie would arrive in Miami Beach with 1,282 votes in hand, now says he’ll have 773. . . . As Muskie goes down, McGovern goes up. He predicted to a Marion, Pa. audience a week ago that he would sweep both the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania primaries April 25 and come out of them with the biggest delegate count of the bunch (he’s just two delegates short of Muskie right now). . . . Stephen Sch-

“If you have tears, Ed, prepare to shed them now.”