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FOR THE RECORD m “Now you see it now you don’t” play by Bobby Kennedy to get a Kennedy man into the Senate as junior senator from New York spoiled by Rep. Sam- uel Stratton—who would not be averse to getting the Democratic nomination himself. Stratton spilled the beans in public blast at Kennedy for handpick- ing former JFK confidant and speech writer Ted Sorensen to run_ against Jacob Javits in °68. N.Y. state Demo- crats, said Stratton, feel choice should. be up to them, not to non-native son. …. Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore. in line for chairmanship of key Select Com- mittee on Small Business (including horse stables?), but his Senate col- leagues cool on proposition. Morse’s record as maverick could cost him cov- eted position. . . . Last chairman to be deposed as chairman of a House Committee (for reasons other than party disloyalty) was John Randolph of Roanoke, in 1807. His crime: eccentric and arbitrary behavior. @ National Right to Work Committee so encouraged by composition of new House it will lobby this year for change in Taft-Hartley law to outlaw union shops nationally. Section 14(b) of Taft- Hartley permits individual states to out- law union shops, but stops there. .. . William Patterson of the Communist Party U.S.A. urges, in Jan. 10 Worker, formation of local committees to defend Adam Clayton Powell. . . . Nationai Guardian reveals that Shirley Graham DuBois (widow of W.E.B. DuBois), bounced from Ghana by the new anti- Nkrumah regime, has taken up resi- dence in Cairo. . . .New Accra govern- ment has also stopped work on the Encyclopedia Africana DuBois was editing when he died. M@ No resting place for Bertrand Rus- sell’s war crimes tribunal. Prime Min- ister Tage Erlander of Sweden has wired Russell his refusal on grounds that the way to get both sides to the negotiating table is not by increasing world antagonism against Lyndon John- son. . Red China apologist Felix Greene (he has turned out the most pro—Red China documentary of them all) is now filing for U.S. citizenship. … North Vietnam apologist Staughton Lynd could be leaving Yale. In Na- tional Guardian New Year guest edi- torial Lynd wrote: “I have concluded that what I communicate to the handful of Yale students that I influence is that —— POSE HO Bilis iS seis oe No Cousée Tanner-The Bulletin Ben Roth Agency <7 owe it all to the siudy of Mao Tse-tung”’ they should go to. Wall St. and Wash- ington as planned, and run the world more imaginatively. What I wish to communicate to them, however, is that they are unfit to run the world at all. And I suspect there is no way for me to get this message across except to leave Yale.” @ About face: Equal Employment Op- portunities Commission is now demand- ing that labor unions disclose how many Negroes, members of other min- orities, they have in their ranks. Reason: well-grounded Negro complaint that they can’t get into many of the big craft unions. … Dr. Timothy Leary’s League for Spiritual Discovery has filed suit in New York against laws which prevent its “priests” from im- porting marijuana, peyote and other drugs to dispense to their “congrega- tions.” @ Political reporters moaning among themselves that if, as they suspect, Nel- son Rockefeller’s Inaugural speech was meant to test his Presidential appeal they’ll be subjected to more BOMFOG in the months ahead. BOMFOG is campaign favorite with Rocky. It means: Brother- hood of Man, Fatherhood of God— and is ever on his lips. . . . Bruce Chap- man, onetime editor of liberal Republi- can Advance magazine, now writing number of Romney campaign speeches on a fee-per-speech basis. . . . It’s rum- ored that a former sidekick of Chap- man has been chosen to ghost Rom- ney’s foreign policy book (Why Not Defeat?) . . . ACA, in final salute to the late 89th Congress, makes point that it became more conservative in its sec- ond (1966) session. In 1965, the Sen- ate voted conservatively 38 per cent of the time; in

the vote was 41.6. House figures: 38.9 per cent in 1965, 43.8 in °66. … YAF members who’ve been picketing American Motors dealers in protest against proposed AMC trade deal with USSR running up against beefs by college officials and local police forces. American Motors has sicked the authorities on the YAFers. . . . YAF succeeded in queering Fire- stone plans to build a rubber-processing plant in Rumania in 1965. @ It’s the rage in Rhodesia: the “Sanc- tions Suit,” a loose-fitting pants-suit which makes nylon underwear and gir- dies (both import items) unnecessary.

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FOR THE RECORD m “Now you see it now you don’t” play by Bobby Kennedy to get a Kennedy man into the Senate as junior senator from New York spoiled by Rep. Sam- uel Stratton—who would not be averse to getting the Democratic nomination himself. Stratton spilled the beans in public blast at Kennedy for handpick- ing former JFK confidant and speech writer Ted Sorensen to run_ against Jacob Javits in °68. N.Y. state Demo- crats, said Stratton, feel choice should. be up to them, not to non-native son. …. Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore. in line for chairmanship of key Select Com- mittee on Small Business (including horse stables?), but his Senate col- leagues cool on proposition. Morse’s record as maverick could cost him cov- eted position. . . . Last chairman to be deposed as chairman of a House Committee (for reasons other than party disloyalty) was John Randolph of Roanoke, in 1807. His crime: eccentric and arbitrary behavior. @ National Right to Work Committee so encouraged by composition of new House it will lobby this year for change in Taft-Hartley law to outlaw union shops nationally. Section 14(b) of Taft- Hartley permits individual states to out- law union shops, but stops there. .. . William Patterson of the Communist Party U.S.A. urges, in Jan. 10 Worker, formation of local committees to defend Adam Clayton Powell. . . . Nationai Guardian reveals that Shirley Graham DuBois (widow of W.E.B. DuBois), bounced from Ghana by the new anti- Nkrumah regime, has taken up resi- dence in Cairo. . . .New Accra govern- ment has also stopped work on the Encyclopedia Africana DuBois was editing when he died. M@ No resting place for Bertrand Rus- sell’s war crimes tribunal. Prime Min- ister Tage Erlander of Sweden has wired Russell his refusal on grounds that the way to get both sides to the negotiating table is not by increasing world antagonism against Lyndon John- son. . Red China apologist Felix Greene (he has turned out the most pro—Red China documentary of them all) is now filing for U.S. citizenship. … North Vietnam apologist Staughton Lynd could be leaving Yale. In Na- tional Guardian New Year guest edi- torial Lynd wrote: “I have concluded that what I communicate to the handful of Yale students that I influence is that —— POSE HO Bilis iS seis oe No Cousée Tanner-The Bulletin Ben Roth Agency <7 owe it all to the siudy of Mao Tse-tung”’ they should go to. Wall St. and Wash- ington as planned, and run the world more imaginatively. What I wish to communicate to them, however, is that they are unfit to run the world at all. And I suspect there is no way for me to get this message across except to leave Yale.” @ About face: Equal Employment Op- portunities Commission is now demand- ing that labor unions disclose how many Negroes, members of other min- orities, they have in their ranks. Reason: well-grounded Negro complaint that they can’t get into many of the big craft unions. … Dr. Timothy Leary’s League for Spiritual Discovery has filed suit in New York against laws which prevent its “priests” from im- porting marijuana, peyote and other drugs to dispense to their “congrega- tions.” @ Political reporters moaning among themselves that if, as they suspect, Nel- son Rockefeller’s Inaugural speech was meant to test his Presidential appeal they’ll be subjected to more BOMFOG in the months ahead. BOMFOG is campaign favorite with Rocky. It means: Brother- hood of Man, Fatherhood of God— and is ever on his lips. . . . Bruce Chap- man, onetime editor of liberal Republi- can Advance magazine, now writing number of Romney campaign speeches on a fee-per-speech basis. . . . It’s rum- ored that a former sidekick of Chap- man has been chosen to ghost Rom- ney’s foreign policy book (Why Not Defeat?) . . . ACA, in final salute to the late 89th Congress, makes point that it became more conservative in its sec- ond (1966) session. In 1965, the Sen- ate voted conservatively 38 per cent of the time; in

the vote was 41.6. House figures: 38.9 per cent in 1965, 43.8 in °66. … YAF members who’ve been picketing American Motors dealers in protest against proposed AMC trade deal with USSR running up against beefs by college officials and local police forces. American Motors has sicked the authorities on the YAFers. . . . YAF succeeded in queering Fire- stone plans to build a rubber-processing plant in Rumania in 1965. @ It’s the rage in Rhodesia: the “Sanc- tions Suit,” a loose-fitting pants-suit which makes nylon underwear and gir- dies (both import items) unnecessary.