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Most of the readers of Stephen Schlesinger’s New Democrat (“The Only Magazine for Democrats”) are left-liberals and here’s what they think about the Presidential hopefuls. Who would you most like to see run in ’72? McGovern (29 per cent), Kennedy (16), Harold Hughes (14), Ramsey Clark (11). Who would you least like to see win the nomination? Jackson (46 per cent), Humphrey (29). In the “least like” question McGovern, Hughes, Clark got no negative votes, Kennedy did. . . . George McGovern’s pitch to the far Left included sending a personal representative to the inauguration of the new radical-left mayor of Berkeley, Warren Widener (McGovern had been going to send a telegram but the WU strike prevented it). . . . Other possible candidates to head the third party that Gore Vidal and Benjamin Spock were busy organizing in Albuquerque a fortnight ago: Eugene McCarthy, John Lindsay, Julian Bond, Ramsey Clark, Cesar Chavez, according to spokesman John Salazar. Ralph Nader says he’s not interested. . . . Assistant Producer Jeff Gralnick of the TV show Sixty Minutes has taken job as McGovern press aide. Quips Monday: “That’s about as long as McGovern is expected to last once he gets to the convention in ’72.”

New York’s a Summer Festival Notes: Sighted on the street, a huge red dump truck with large white stencilled notice on its side: “Let’s Help New York—by Dumping Lindsay.” . . . Lots of groups are. GE pulled its administrative headquarters out of New York a month ago. IBM is expected to announce within the fortnight that it will also close up shop in Fun City, moving its main operations elsewhere. . . . It’s almost a tie in New York City hospitals. Figures at the end of the first year show that 950 babies are being aborted for every thousand permitted to live, and abortion forces hope to top that record next year. . . . Orthodox Jews moving against abortion. At Long Island Right to Life meeting a fortnight ago in which Catholics, Protestants and Jews were represented a letter was read from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate appealing to Jews all over the world to avoid abortions because they are “contrary to Jewish religious laws.” (A meeting earlier this year in Miami of the major American Jewish Orthodox organizations also came out against abortion.) . . . That public employees union that brought New York to a standstill a month or so ago by opening all the bridges, abandoning trucks across highways etc. has been punished for violating the Taylor antistrike law. It won’t be permitted to have its union check-off privileges for nine long months.

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Most of the readers of Stephen Schlesinger’s New Democrat (“The Only Magazine for Democrats”) are left-liberals and here’s what they think about the Presidential hopefuls. Who would you most like to see run in ’72? McGovern (29 per cent), Kennedy (16), Harold Hughes (14), Ramsey Clark (11). Who would you least like to see win the nomination? Jackson (46 per cent), Humphrey (29). In the “least like” question McGovern, Hughes, Clark got no negative votes, Kennedy did. . . . George McGovern’s pitch to the far Left included sending a personal representative to the inauguration of the new radical-left mayor of Berkeley, Warren Widener (McGovern had been going to send a telegram but the WU strike prevented it). . . . Other possible candidates to head the third party that Gore Vidal and Benjamin Spock were busy organizing in Albuquerque a fortnight ago: Eugene McCarthy, John Lindsay, Julian Bond, Ramsey Clark, Cesar Chavez, according to spokesman John Salazar. Ralph Nader says he’s not interested. . . . Assistant Producer Jeff Gralnick of the TV show Sixty Minutes has taken job as McGovern press aide. Quips Monday: “That’s about as long as McGovern is expected to last once he gets to the convention in ’72.”

New York’s a Summer Festival Notes: Sighted on the street, a huge red dump truck with large white stencilled notice on its side: “Let’s Help New York—by Dumping Lindsay.” . . . Lots of groups are. GE pulled its administrative headquarters out of New York a month ago. IBM is expected to announce within the fortnight that it will also close up shop in Fun City, moving its main operations elsewhere. . . . It’s almost a tie in New York City hospitals. Figures at the end of the first year show that 950 babies are being aborted for every thousand permitted to live, and abortion forces hope to top that record next year. . . . Orthodox Jews moving against abortion. At Long Island Right to Life meeting a fortnight ago in which Catholics, Protestants and Jews were represented a letter was read from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate appealing to Jews all over the world to avoid abortions because they are “contrary to Jewish religious laws.” (A meeting earlier this year in Miami of the major American Jewish Orthodox organizations also came out against abortion.) . . . That public employees union that brought New York to a standstill a month or so ago by opening all the bridges, abandoning trucks across highways etc. has been punished for violating the Taylor antistrike law. It won’t be permitted to have its union check-off privileges for nine long months.