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Convention plans: Word is Democrats will start each day’s session in evening, figuring daytime TV coverage not worth the bother. Possible hangup: strike of electrical workers may prevent installation of miles of cable, thousands of phone circuits needed by convention; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley assuring party bigwigs he won’t let it happen. . . . Republicans will be well protected; Miami Beach city council just passed nation’s toughest gun-control law (all owners to be photographed, fingerprinted), also stop-and-frisk measure. Convention Hall to be surrounded by six-foot metal fence, tucked behind flowering shrubbery. . . . Sen. Fred Harris (D., Okla.), national co-chairman of Humphrey campaign, worried: Head of party machine in his home county being sued (for $50,000) by dissident Dems who charge he made “mockery and farce” of vote for delegates to state convention; McCarthyites already calling Harris “railroader.” . . . Straws in Wind: Chicago gamblers betting LBJ will accept a draft, says columnist Leonard Lyons; prophetess Jeane Dixon foresees “strong pressure” on LBJ to run but says he won’t; book Sam Johnson’s Boy by Alfred Steinberg (Macmillan) being heavily touted; ads feature quote from N. Y. Daily News: “Waiting in the Democratic wings, there’s still LBJ.”

Rumor, anyone? One old pro says if Nelson Rockefeller’s try for GOP nomination bombs as expected, he. will step down as Governor so that successor Malcolm Wilson can name him to Robert Kennedy’s Senate seat. Possibilities, should Rock do the appointing: Republicans William Miller, James Farmer; maybe even Democrats Robert Wagner, Ted Sorensen. . . . Wayne Morse in trouble; Evans/Novak think he’ll lose to young, attractive, libbish Republican Robert Packwood now that Vietnam issue is dying down. . . . Robert E. Bauman (leader in YAF, YR, ACU) quit as GOP legislative aide on House floor with plaudits from liberal (Florence Dwyer, Ted Kupferman) as well as conservative members.

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Convention plans: Word is Democrats will start each day’s session in evening, figuring daytime TV coverage not worth the bother. Possible hangup: strike of electrical workers may prevent installation of miles of cable, thousands of phone circuits needed by convention; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley assuring party bigwigs he won’t let it happen. . . . Republicans will be well protected; Miami Beach city council just passed nation’s toughest gun-control law (all owners to be photographed, fingerprinted), also stop-and-frisk measure. Convention Hall to be surrounded by six-foot metal fence, tucked behind flowering shrubbery. . . . Sen. Fred Harris (D., Okla.), national co-chairman of Humphrey campaign, worried: Head of party machine in his home county being sued (for $50,000) by dissident Dems who charge he made “mockery and farce” of vote for delegates to state convention; McCarthyites already calling Harris “railroader.” . . . Straws in Wind: Chicago gamblers betting LBJ will accept a draft, says columnist Leonard Lyons; prophetess Jeane Dixon foresees “strong pressure” on LBJ to run but says he won’t; book Sam Johnson’s Boy by Alfred Steinberg (Macmillan) being heavily touted; ads feature quote from N. Y. Daily News: “Waiting in the Democratic wings, there’s still LBJ.”

Rumor, anyone? One old pro says if Nelson Rockefeller’s try for GOP nomination bombs as expected, he. will step down as Governor so that successor Malcolm Wilson can name him to Robert Kennedy’s Senate seat. Possibilities, should Rock do the appointing: Republicans William Miller, James Farmer; maybe even Democrats Robert Wagner, Ted Sorensen. . . . Wayne Morse in trouble; Evans/Novak think he’ll lose to young, attractive, libbish Republican Robert Packwood now that Vietnam issue is dying down. . . . Robert E. Bauman (leader in YAF, YR, ACU) quit as GOP legislative aide on House floor with plaudits from liberal (Florence Dwyer, Ted Kupferman) as well as conservative members.