■ Our sources tell us that in the event of an OPEC embargo against the U.S., the Carter Administration has a contingency plan to boycott Arabic numerals.
■ Not even the elbows of John Connally can achieve the front pages these days. The Iranian crisis, prolonged by Administration restraint, has frozen the status quo, with Carter and Reagan in the lead for nomination. And there’s plenty more restraint where that came from. The Connally campaign, reports the New York Times, has given up on publicity blitzes—the networks aren’t selling air time—and will instead concentrate on state-by-state primary fights. Another bit of Iran fallout: Teddy’s plunge has also hurt Connally, who has keyed his candidacy to the theme that only he can beat Kennedy. The fact may also be that only Kennedy can he beat.
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