For the Record

About the New York elections: John Lindsay had three of the most prominent Republicans in the state manning his telephone hookups on the day before the primary, trying to bring out the voters: Sens. Charles Goodell and Jacob Javits and Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz (Rocky got out of it by flying down to Rio). . . . Washington Post in its sum-up of what could be expected (“Outlook” section, June 15) had this caption under Mario Procaccino (who ran first in the Democratic primary) “. . . tagged with a right-wing label, it is hurting him,” and this one under John Marchi, . sincere, colorless, he has failed to electrify the voters. …” A Daily News voter survey the week before the primary showed why John Lindsay did so poorly: 61 per cent of those who had voted for Lindsay in ’65 rated his performance as “only fair” or “poor”; only 18 per cent of his ’65 supporters thought he had done a good job. . . . Jimmy Breslin, who ran with Norman Mailer, and surprisingly, better than Mailer, apologized to the voters the night of the fiasco for “having participated in a process which required the bars be closed all day.” Mailer, at his headquarters late Tuesday night, quipped that now the liberal Lindsay way had been tried, maybe the Right should have its crack at running New York City before turning it back to the machine pols. . . . Mailer-Breslin campaign, busting for funds at the end, auctioned off an old bra of Christine Keeler (of Profumo fame). It brought $7.50.

SDS finally did hold its national convention, ending up at the Chicago Coliseum after every campus it applied to turned it down. . . . According to last week’s testimony before the House Internal Security Committee, SDS now has chapters on 317 campuses and a membership of six to eight thousand—but it can mobilize up to 35,000. . . . And it’s powerful. At its national council meeting in Austin, Texas in March the SDS voted to sever all ties with the radical Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). Last week the SSOC voted to dissolve; many of its members will join SDS. . . . Australian graduate student Philip Sandford has agreed to deportation procedures rather than serve out an eighteen-month term for various SDS activities at Florida State. . . . Immigration authorities hope Dr. George S. Haggar, fired last month as an assistant professor at Southern University (New Orleans) for ditto, will take the hint. Haggar can be deported to Canada because the “purpose for which he entered the country has been served.” (Well, sort of.)

Featured Tags

About the New York elections: John Lindsay had three of the most prominent Republicans in the state manning his telephone hookups on the day before the primary, trying to bring out the voters: Sens. Charles Goodell and Jacob Javits and Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz (Rocky got out of it by flying down to Rio). . . . Washington Post in its sum-up of what could be expected (“Outlook” section, June 15) had this caption under Mario Procaccino (who ran first in the Democratic primary) “. . . tagged with a right-wing label, it is hurting him,” and this one under John Marchi, . sincere, colorless, he has failed to electrify the voters. …” A Daily News voter survey the week before the primary showed why John Lindsay did so poorly: 61 per cent of those who had voted for Lindsay in ’65 rated his performance as “only fair” or “poor”; only 18 per cent of his ’65 supporters thought he had done a good job. . . . Jimmy Breslin, who ran with Norman Mailer, and surprisingly, better than Mailer, apologized to the voters the night of the fiasco for “having participated in a process which required the bars be closed all day.” Mailer, at his headquarters late Tuesday night, quipped that now the liberal Lindsay way had been tried, maybe the Right should have its crack at running New York City before turning it back to the machine pols. . . . Mailer-Breslin campaign, busting for funds at the end, auctioned off an old bra of Christine Keeler (of Profumo fame). It brought $7.50.

SDS finally did hold its national convention, ending up at the Chicago Coliseum after every campus it applied to turned it down. . . . According to last week’s testimony before the House Internal Security Committee, SDS now has chapters on 317 campuses and a membership of six to eight thousand—but it can mobilize up to 35,000. . . . And it’s powerful. At its national council meeting in Austin, Texas in March the SDS voted to sever all ties with the radical Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). Last week the SSOC voted to dissolve; many of its members will join SDS. . . . Australian graduate student Philip Sandford has agreed to deportation procedures rather than serve out an eighteen-month term for various SDS activities at Florida State. . . . Immigration authorities hope Dr. George S. Haggar, fired last month as an assistant professor at Southern University (New Orleans) for ditto, will take the hint. Haggar can be deported to Canada because the “purpose for which he entered the country has been served.” (Well, sort of.)