■ Wanted: good conservative Republican candidates. Party leaders, totting up the meaning of the Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and Buffalo may-oral elections and primaries are looking for young, aggressive candidates to run in primaries against Charles Goodell (N.Y.) and Charles Percy (Ill.) next year, and to field in Connecticut, where veteran anti-Communist Tom Dodd is in trouble with his own party. … In Texas, Rep. George Bush, who had been acting coy about taking on liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough, is now making candidate-like noises (after all, John Tower proves that Texas Democrats will vote for a Republican). . . . Possible troubles for Republican conservative George Murphy in California from S. I. Hayakawa, who was named president of San Francisco State last week. Hayakawa, a Democrat with a big name in the state, hints he’d like to go for a public office, which is bad news for liberal Democratic Reps. John Tunney, Phil Burton and George Brown, who would like to take on Murphy. All three would be more ideologically congenial to California Democrats than Hayakawa, but Hayakawa has a better chance of winning in today’s law-and-order climate.
■ People in Lower Marion Township, Pa., which is where Bryn Mawr is situated, up in arms against appointment of Communist Herbert Aptheker as guest lecturer there next fall. They figure since Bryn Mawr pays the township no taxes that it is they, in effect, who are paying for the Aptheker caper. They also don’t buy story of President Katherine McBride that Aptheker will be teaching black studies not Communism. . . . Communist Daily World has scare story July 11 headlined: “Nazis linked to drive for ABM.” Nazis turn out to be the super-respectable and responsible American Security Council (ASC), which the World identifies as a “Nazi-front organization.” World objects to campaign by ASC for ABM and applauds SANE for “[flooding] the capital for weeks on end with anti-ABM mail [which was] a key factor in the upsurge of opposition to the ABM.”
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