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It’s said Teddy Kennedy told his associates, day after the funeral, “We’ve got to help Hubert get elected.” . . . Talk goes on of a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket — but pol-watchers can’t help noticing that Democratic National Committee assigned Texas delegation to best available hotel rooms; can’t help wondering about possibility of a Humphrey-Connally ticket. . . . Speaking of Texas: libdems there may bolt party again as in 1966, when they helped elect conservative Republican John Tower to Senate), vote for Republican Paul Eggers for governor instead of their party’s man, conservative Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, who edged very liberal Don Yarborough in June 1 primary. . . . Battle shaping up for Thomas Kuchel’s post as minority whip, between Hugh Scott (Pa.), another liberal, and conservative Roman Hruska (Nebr.) . . . . Peacenik Allard Lowenstein, who claims to have talked Eugene McCarthy into running, upset machine candidate and won Democratic nomination to the House from N.Y. 5th District (Nassau County) . . . . Another dove, actor Gary Merrill, ran a poor, poor third in Maine GOP House primary.

Raised Eyebrows: Poor People’s Campaign paid $1,500 to Southern Railway to ship those mules and wagons to Washington for Solidarity Day march June 19. . . . One campaign side-effect: tourists stayed away in droves; Drew Pearson reports Greyhound alone canceled $200,000 worth of trips to D.C. this spring. . . . Home folks kept to the suburbs, too: Restaurants in the capital report a “serious depression” ever since riots after King assassination, with after-dark business down as much as 50 per cent. . . . Plan now is to start “Poor People’s University” in Resurrection City, teaching nonviolence, Marxist economics, etc; faculty to include Michael Harrington, David Dellinger, Harry Belafonte, Joan Baez. Students won’t be poor folk, but collegians recruited from Solidarity Day marchers. . . . Lest they forget, welfare officials in several states got letters from HEW reminding them that recipients “temporarily absent” while participating in Poor People’s Campaign must continue to receive checks from back home; to be sent “c/’o SCLC” if no other address is available.

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It’s said Teddy Kennedy told his associates, day after the funeral, “We’ve got to help Hubert get elected.” . . . Talk goes on of a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket — but pol-watchers can’t help noticing that Democratic National Committee assigned Texas delegation to best available hotel rooms; can’t help wondering about possibility of a Humphrey-Connally ticket. . . . Speaking of Texas: libdems there may bolt party again as in 1966, when they helped elect conservative Republican John Tower to Senate), vote for Republican Paul Eggers for governor instead of their party’s man, conservative Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, who edged very liberal Don Yarborough in June 1 primary. . . . Battle shaping up for Thomas Kuchel’s post as minority whip, between Hugh Scott (Pa.), another liberal, and conservative Roman Hruska (Nebr.) . . . . Peacenik Allard Lowenstein, who claims to have talked Eugene McCarthy into running, upset machine candidate and won Democratic nomination to the House from N.Y. 5th District (Nassau County) . . . . Another dove, actor Gary Merrill, ran a poor, poor third in Maine GOP House primary.

Raised Eyebrows: Poor People’s Campaign paid $1,500 to Southern Railway to ship those mules and wagons to Washington for Solidarity Day march June 19. . . . One campaign side-effect: tourists stayed away in droves; Drew Pearson reports Greyhound alone canceled $200,000 worth of trips to D.C. this spring. . . . Home folks kept to the suburbs, too: Restaurants in the capital report a “serious depression” ever since riots after King assassination, with after-dark business down as much as 50 per cent. . . . Plan now is to start “Poor People’s University” in Resurrection City, teaching nonviolence, Marxist economics, etc; faculty to include Michael Harrington, David Dellinger, Harry Belafonte, Joan Baez. Students won’t be poor folk, but collegians recruited from Solidarity Day marchers. . . . Lest they forget, welfare officials in several states got letters from HEW reminding them that recipients “temporarily absent” while participating in Poor People’s Campaign must continue to receive checks from back home; to be sent “c/’o SCLC” if no other address is available.