Kennedy strategists said to be quoting at length from Sherman Adams memoirs in their how-to-beat Nixon sessions . . . A Los Angeles newsman reports that 50 per cent of the cars bearing Stevenson stickers during Democratic convention were sports cars . . . The summer congressional session will be tough, tactically, for Kennedy. To conciliate labor over his choice of Johnson for running mate, he should press for big-spending welfare legislation but (and here’s where the sleight of hand comes in) without scaring off Southern conservatives Johnson nomination may have won over . . . Kennedy banking heavily on fact 65 per cent of U. S. Catholics live in 11 big Eastern and Middlewestern industrial states, among them New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio . . . Soviet Literary Gazette suggests many American women will not vote for Kennedy in November “out of jealousy” because of the “beauty of his wife.”
Air Force officers privately insisting that evidence refutes Soviet story that it shot down RB-47 . . . One theory is that Soviet ships which joined in initial search for missing plane may have picked up survivors, decided on the spot to make propaganda play . . . Western newsmen say U-2 exhibit was closed in Moscow, not because of approaching Powers trial, as Soviet authorities said, but because public is unresponsive to it . . . Cairo reports say Vietminh Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, who led the troops which captured Dienbienphu, will train the 45,000 Arab volunteers who are said to have signed up to fight in Algeria . . . Egypt is offering all émigré Arabs a “certificate of citizenship” in the UAR which will entitle them to all rights of UAR citizens . . . Belgium, in a misplaced bit of international philanthropy, had equipped the Congolese “Force Publique” with brand-new arms in the months preceding independence . . . The Congo disorders have thrown 70,000 men out of work in Léopoldville, 15,000 in Stanleyville . . . Lloyds of London has upped its shipping risk rates on cargoes to the Congo by 300 per cent.
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