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■ First round in Massachusetts GOP senatorial contest went to liberal Republican Josiah Spaulding who beat out John McCarthy by two to one vote in convention, but who’ll still have to win Sept. 15 primary against McCarthy and, possibly, cartoonist Al Capp. Capp has changed his registration from independent to Republican, says he may just make a late bid. Convention that okayed Spaulding, a dove, also knocked out a plank calling for accelerated withdrawal from Vietnam. substituted one in support of President’s move into Cambodia. . . . Gov. Francis Sargent of Mass., who has said thanks but no thanks he’d rather not have Spiro Agnew appearing at a fund- raising function in Boston (“I think we’d better go it alone here”), lost out on his choice of Lt. Gov. He settled on Roland Dwight instead of State Rep. Martin Linsky when party leaders even in liberal Mass. rebelled. Linsky supported Johnson in 1964, refused to support Nixon in ’68, is a member of Americans for Democratic Action. . . . Decision of Republicans in Virginia not to endorse Sen. Harry Byrd Jr., who is running as an independent, was victory for liberal governor Linwood Holton over Rep. Joel Broyhill, the north Virginia conservavative. Holton has, in fact, wrested control of Virginia GOP from old-line Republicans. . . . According to Presidential aide Murray Chotiner, there’s a good chance that Sen. Albert Gore may not survive the Aug. 6 Tennessee Democratic primary. Chotiner says there may be “a repeat of the Texas situation” in which conservative Democrat Lloyd Bentsen beat out veteran liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough. … In Republican primary it will be Rep. Bill Brock v. Western singer and former cowboy star Tex Ritter, with Brock well ahead at the moment by all accounts.

■ About that Senate vote on McGovern-Hatfield (the most restrictive of all the antiwar amendments). Doves said they voted to table it because they didn’t think the time was right for it—i.e., they would have lost. Others on the Hill point out another reason they might not want to bring war debate to an end, which is that the money is rolling in. According to some estimates the half-hour TV time the doves bought plus various mailings by new antiwar committees have brought in $400,000 to $500,000, and much of the surplus is being channeled to campaign coffers of dove senators. Among the recipients, these sources say, are Quentin Burdick, George McGovern, Charles Goodell…. According to Joseph Alsop, private polls in New York show Nelson Rockefeller’s popularity on the rise, up from the abysmal lows of the early spring due, in part, to unbalanced Democratic ticket plus Arthur Goldberg’s poor showing against Howard Samuels in mid-June primary. . . . Going the rounds in Manhattan: the story a rabbi brought back after a recent visit to Israel. He got to see Mrs. Golda Meir, he says, and found she wanted to talk about only one thing, New York politics, about which incidentally, she seems to know everything. “Do you realize, rabbi,” she told him, “that if James Buckley is elected to the Senate, he’ll be the only senator from New York who has the ear of Richard Nixon?”. . . In the making, a “Communicators for Buckley Committee” of agency and pr men, mostly from liberal shops, who are putting their talents to work for Buckley.

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■ First round in Massachusetts GOP senatorial contest went to liberal Republican Josiah Spaulding who beat out John McCarthy by two to one vote in convention, but who’ll still have to win Sept. 15 primary against McCarthy and, possibly, cartoonist Al Capp. Capp has changed his registration from independent to Republican, says he may just make a late bid. Convention that okayed Spaulding, a dove, also knocked out a plank calling for accelerated withdrawal from Vietnam. substituted one in support of President’s move into Cambodia. . . . Gov. Francis Sargent of Mass., who has said thanks but no thanks he’d rather not have Spiro Agnew appearing at a fund- raising function in Boston (“I think we’d better go it alone here”), lost out on his choice of Lt. Gov. He settled on Roland Dwight instead of State Rep. Martin Linsky when party leaders even in liberal Mass. rebelled. Linsky supported Johnson in 1964, refused to support Nixon in ’68, is a member of Americans for Democratic Action. . . . Decision of Republicans in Virginia not to endorse Sen. Harry Byrd Jr., who is running as an independent, was victory for liberal governor Linwood Holton over Rep. Joel Broyhill, the north Virginia conservavative. Holton has, in fact, wrested control of Virginia GOP from old-line Republicans. . . . According to Presidential aide Murray Chotiner, there’s a good chance that Sen. Albert Gore may not survive the Aug. 6 Tennessee Democratic primary. Chotiner says there may be “a repeat of the Texas situation” in which conservative Democrat Lloyd Bentsen beat out veteran liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough. … In Republican primary it will be Rep. Bill Brock v. Western singer and former cowboy star Tex Ritter, with Brock well ahead at the moment by all accounts.

■ About that Senate vote on McGovern-Hatfield (the most restrictive of all the antiwar amendments). Doves said they voted to table it because they didn’t think the time was right for it—i.e., they would have lost. Others on the Hill point out another reason they might not want to bring war debate to an end, which is that the money is rolling in. According to some estimates the half-hour TV time the doves bought plus various mailings by new antiwar committees have brought in $400,000 to $500,000, and much of the surplus is being channeled to campaign coffers of dove senators. Among the recipients, these sources say, are Quentin Burdick, George McGovern, Charles Goodell…. According to Joseph Alsop, private polls in New York show Nelson Rockefeller’s popularity on the rise, up from the abysmal lows of the early spring due, in part, to unbalanced Democratic ticket plus Arthur Goldberg’s poor showing against Howard Samuels in mid-June primary. . . . Going the rounds in Manhattan: the story a rabbi brought back after a recent visit to Israel. He got to see Mrs. Golda Meir, he says, and found she wanted to talk about only one thing, New York politics, about which incidentally, she seems to know everything. “Do you realize, rabbi,” she told him, “that if James Buckley is elected to the Senate, he’ll be the only senator from New York who has the ear of Richard Nixon?”. . . In the making, a “Communicators for Buckley Committee” of agency and pr men, mostly from liberal shops, who are putting their talents to work for Buckley.