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Convention Countdown: CBS News v.p. Bill Leonard says if there’s violence at conventions this year, networks will cover it “much more thoroughly” than in ’68. And Walter Cronkite expects trouble, mostly at GOP’s outing, because kids of all ages want (get this) “redress of grievances.” . . . But Miami Snowplow Co., oddly named group that was to provide facilities for (it said) 200,000 demonstrators in Miami Beach, has disbanded because “authorities have not even begun to make any practical, sensible plan” for the influx. . . . Gay Lib’s Chuck Lamong says if Democrats don’t adopt platform plank stressing homosexual rights, he’ll muster ten thousand gays for “kiss-in” outside convention hall. . . . Ban that boomlet: Sen. Mike Gravel (D., Alaska) quietly offering self as perfect man for Number Two spot on Democratic ticket; has wooed Wisconsin delegation, maybe others. . . . Party reform or no, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will again head Illinois delegation (as he has every Convention since 1956). Attempt to get Sen. Adlai Stevenson III elected chairman fizzled.

Stars for McGovern twinkling all over. Latest bash, in London, featured Tony Curtis, Lee Remick, Joe Mankiewicz, Mama Cass Elliot. . . . And Variety headlined the N.Y.C. spectacular this way: “250g name-drop; avec MIKE & ELAINE: BEATTY STAGE MGR.: MCGOVERN N.S.H.” Translation: stars and cash aplenty were there, but McGovern’s speech was disappointing rehash—“Not So Hot.” . . . On McGovern bandwagon: Max Rafferty’s son Dennis; Harvard junior Jamie Galbraith, son of, Convention delegate who predicts if his man is nominated “we’ll have five million volunteers out on election day, motivated by sheer hatred.”

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Convention Countdown: CBS News v.p. Bill Leonard says if there’s violence at conventions this year, networks will cover it “much more thoroughly” than in ’68. And Walter Cronkite expects trouble, mostly at GOP’s outing, because kids of all ages want (get this) “redress of grievances.” . . . But Miami Snowplow Co., oddly named group that was to provide facilities for (it said) 200,000 demonstrators in Miami Beach, has disbanded because “authorities have not even begun to make any practical, sensible plan” for the influx. . . . Gay Lib’s Chuck Lamong says if Democrats don’t adopt platform plank stressing homosexual rights, he’ll muster ten thousand gays for “kiss-in” outside convention hall. . . . Ban that boomlet: Sen. Mike Gravel (D., Alaska) quietly offering self as perfect man for Number Two spot on Democratic ticket; has wooed Wisconsin delegation, maybe others. . . . Party reform or no, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will again head Illinois delegation (as he has every Convention since 1956). Attempt to get Sen. Adlai Stevenson III elected chairman fizzled.

Stars for McGovern twinkling all over. Latest bash, in London, featured Tony Curtis, Lee Remick, Joe Mankiewicz, Mama Cass Elliot. . . . And Variety headlined the N.Y.C. spectacular this way: “250g name-drop; avec MIKE & ELAINE: BEATTY STAGE MGR.: MCGOVERN N.S.H.” Translation: stars and cash aplenty were there, but McGovern’s speech was disappointing rehash—“Not So Hot.” . . . On McGovern bandwagon: Max Rafferty’s son Dennis; Harvard junior Jamie Galbraith, son of, Convention delegate who predicts if his man is nominated “we’ll have five million volunteers out on election day, motivated by sheer hatred.”