The poll-takers have sawed themselves off a limb again. Foil most favorable to Goldwater still gave Rockefeller a fat 9% edge in California» … War on poverty: hearing poor tenant family on Missy Lady Bird’s land needed a new roof, Alabama YAFs and YRs came with paint, cement, hired roofers and Goldwater hats. Family declined offer, because house “will have to be worked up from the bottom”—served coffee to volunteers…. Meanwhile, Massa Lyndon, out inspecting potemkin poverty pockets, visited “poverty-stricken” Marlow family in North Carolina. The Marlows, before visit, hadn’t known they were the poorest folks in the county. “The governor’s man tried to make us look poorer than we are,” Mrs. Marlow said. “He told me to be sure and have a washing on the line when the President came and also to be sure the children were barefooted.”… Old socialist Norman Thomas, at Socialist Party convention in Chicago, said of Pres. Johnson: “I ought to rejoice and I do rub my eyes in amazement and surprise. His war on poverty is a socialistic approach and may be the No. 1 issue in the 1964 campaign. ” Thomas also called Goldwater “the greatest evil.”… It’s official: the ADA has formally endorsed Pres. Johnson.
The British Labor Party reaffirmed its pledge to nationalize nation’s 10 leading steel companies if it gains power…. Ho-hum: Tokyo factory is allowing women workers two yawn breaks per hour…. Still busy: Communist-led “liberation front” terrorists in Venezuela. Most recent raid staged in downtown Caracas…. Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn voiced astonishment at $131 million estate left by late PM Sarit Thanarat: “Where could so much money have come from? Nearly a third of the national budget!”… Woops, Erin faw down ’n go bragh: visiting Irish President Eamon De Valera was greeted in Washington with flags of the Ivory Coast… The deal: U.S., USSR and Communist Hungary agree that Cardinal Mindszenty should leave U.S. legation in Budapest, where he took asylum during Hungarian uprising; but how make him get out ? Mindszenty, whose presence in legation is a protest against Red tyranny, doesn’t want to go. Solution; assign problem to James Donovan, noted spy-trader and ransom specialist.




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