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■ They’re off! It will be Rep. George Bush in Texas against liberal Democratic Sen. Ralph Yarborough (chances good: there could be bitter Democratic primary as Lyndon Johnson-John Connally wing of Democratic Party disputes Yarborough’s renomination); Rep. Donald (Buz) Lukens in Ohio to run for seat Gov. Janies Rhodes is vacating (chances fair to good: Lukens has run both previous successful campaigns against the GOP establishment which will certainly at least try to contest his nomination. Tough riding also in November when Democratic ticket in Ohio is expected to be headed by John Glenn for senator; John J. Gilligan for governor. Gilligan, you may recall, knocked off Sen. Frank Lausche in primary in ’68, only to lose in November to William Saxbe). . . . And in Massachusetts, former GOP State Chairman Josiah A. Spaulding, a liberal Republican, making his first electoral try against giant-killer Edward M. Kennedy (chances: nil). . . . In California, it’s now official: Rep. John Tunney has entered race against Sen. George Murphy, looks best of potentially big primary card. Murphy, incidentally, has signed contract with author and biographer Victor Lasky for campaign biography to be called: Say, Didn’t You Use to be George Murphy?

■ ADA is first of major political rate-sheets to sum up performance of 91st Congress, first session, and it has some goodies. Can’t be an election year: Jacob Javits is back on 100 per cent pure list (along with Clifford Case of New Jersey, only other Republican among six Senate perfect scorers). . . . Sen. Charles Goodell (R., N.Y.), working manfully, managed to jack up his ADA rating from 38 per cent (last year in the House) to 83 per cent (first year in the Senate). . . . Republican to place highest in House was another New Yorker, Ogden Reid, of the Herald Tribune family, with 83 per cent. . . . Democrats in Senate to score 100 per cent were: Hartke (Ind.), Kennedy (Mass.), Hart (Mich.), Nelson (Wis.). Presidential candidates Edmund Muskie (Me.) and George McGovern (S.D.) might have made it—they both scored 94 per cent—but each missed one key vote. Other high scorers: Edward Brooke (R., Mass.) and Mark Hatfield (R., Ore.), 89 per cent. . . . On other side: eight zero scorers included two Southern Democrats, Long (La.), Eastland (Miss.) and six Republicans: Gold- water and Fannin (Ariz.), Gurney (Fla.), Dole (Kan.), Curtis (Neb.), Thurmond (S.C.) and Hansen (Wyo.). . . . Among freshman Republican senators Charles Mathias (Md.), 78, rated just above Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, 72, which was the rating also of Charles Percy (Ill.). . . . Republican Minority Leader Hugh Scott, playing it cool, came up with 56 per cent, which won’t cool off group of Pennsylvania GOP conservatives who have just formed a “Committee of 100 to Retire Hugh Scott.”

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■ They’re off! It will be Rep. George Bush in Texas against liberal Democratic Sen. Ralph Yarborough (chances good: there could be bitter Democratic primary as Lyndon Johnson-John Connally wing of Democratic Party disputes Yarborough’s renomination); Rep. Donald (Buz) Lukens in Ohio to run for seat Gov. Janies Rhodes is vacating (chances fair to good: Lukens has run both previous successful campaigns against the GOP establishment which will certainly at least try to contest his nomination. Tough riding also in November when Democratic ticket in Ohio is expected to be headed by John Glenn for senator; John J. Gilligan for governor. Gilligan, you may recall, knocked off Sen. Frank Lausche in primary in ’68, only to lose in November to William Saxbe). . . . And in Massachusetts, former GOP State Chairman Josiah A. Spaulding, a liberal Republican, making his first electoral try against giant-killer Edward M. Kennedy (chances: nil). . . . In California, it’s now official: Rep. John Tunney has entered race against Sen. George Murphy, looks best of potentially big primary card. Murphy, incidentally, has signed contract with author and biographer Victor Lasky for campaign biography to be called: Say, Didn’t You Use to be George Murphy?

■ ADA is first of major political rate-sheets to sum up performance of 91st Congress, first session, and it has some goodies. Can’t be an election year: Jacob Javits is back on 100 per cent pure list (along with Clifford Case of New Jersey, only other Republican among six Senate perfect scorers). . . . Sen. Charles Goodell (R., N.Y.), working manfully, managed to jack up his ADA rating from 38 per cent (last year in the House) to 83 per cent (first year in the Senate). . . . Republican to place highest in House was another New Yorker, Ogden Reid, of the Herald Tribune family, with 83 per cent. . . . Democrats in Senate to score 100 per cent were: Hartke (Ind.), Kennedy (Mass.), Hart (Mich.), Nelson (Wis.). Presidential candidates Edmund Muskie (Me.) and George McGovern (S.D.) might have made it—they both scored 94 per cent—but each missed one key vote. Other high scorers: Edward Brooke (R., Mass.) and Mark Hatfield (R., Ore.), 89 per cent. . . . On other side: eight zero scorers included two Southern Democrats, Long (La.), Eastland (Miss.) and six Republicans: Gold- water and Fannin (Ariz.), Gurney (Fla.), Dole (Kan.), Curtis (Neb.), Thurmond (S.C.) and Hansen (Wyo.). . . . Among freshman Republican senators Charles Mathias (Md.), 78, rated just above Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, 72, which was the rating also of Charles Percy (Ill.). . . . Republican Minority Leader Hugh Scott, playing it cool, came up with 56 per cent, which won’t cool off group of Pennsylvania GOP conservatives who have just formed a “Committee of 100 to Retire Hugh Scott.”