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■ Unceremonious: The Chicago Tribune’s headline for its editorial on Fortas: “one down, how many more to go?” . . . According to Civil Service Commission, Abe Fortas will not receive a government pension because he resigned rather than retired, and he doesn’t meet other service and age requirements. . . . Of the Supreme Court Justices, only three have regular lecture agents: Fortas, Douglas and Brennan. . . . Harry Ashmore, of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Berkeley (which also receives money from the Albert Parvin Foundation), sees no similarity between Douglas taking $12,000 a year from Parvin and the Fortas case because, among other things, “there has never been any secret about it, and you have to remember he has alimony to pay.”

■ Dirksenian rhetoric in full flower a week ago at closed door meeting of Senate Republican Policy Committee, after Everett Dirksen read that Sen. Charles Goodell had “gone all the way to Canada to call [me] an obstructionist.” Estimates vary: some say Dirksen held forth on Goodell for fifty minutes, others say only thirty. Only Jacob Javits, Goodell’s New York colleague, said a word in his defense. . . . Javits now sponsoring legislation to make health insurance compulsory for all Americans, who will still be free, he says, to choose from among competing plans. . . . The Javits-Goodell operation to dragoon Republican senators to back John Lindsay (they claimed 24 endorsements) against John Marchi in the Republican primary, backfired when several senators later withdrew their endorsements; one said he hadn’t been asked. . . . White House keeping hands off the New York race according to a spokesman who said: “The President thinks his Administration should stay out of partisan primaries and that will be the case here.” There’s been pressure on RMN to make some pro-JVL gesture before June 17.

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■ Unceremonious: The Chicago Tribune’s headline for its editorial on Fortas: “one down, how many more to go?” . . . According to Civil Service Commission, Abe Fortas will not receive a government pension because he resigned rather than retired, and he doesn’t meet other service and age requirements. . . . Of the Supreme Court Justices, only three have regular lecture agents: Fortas, Douglas and Brennan. . . . Harry Ashmore, of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Berkeley (which also receives money from the Albert Parvin Foundation), sees no similarity between Douglas taking $12,000 a year from Parvin and the Fortas case because, among other things, “there has never been any secret about it, and you have to remember he has alimony to pay.”

■ Dirksenian rhetoric in full flower a week ago at closed door meeting of Senate Republican Policy Committee, after Everett Dirksen read that Sen. Charles Goodell had “gone all the way to Canada to call [me] an obstructionist.” Estimates vary: some say Dirksen held forth on Goodell for fifty minutes, others say only thirty. Only Jacob Javits, Goodell’s New York colleague, said a word in his defense. . . . Javits now sponsoring legislation to make health insurance compulsory for all Americans, who will still be free, he says, to choose from among competing plans. . . . The Javits-Goodell operation to dragoon Republican senators to back John Lindsay (they claimed 24 endorsements) against John Marchi in the Republican primary, backfired when several senators later withdrew their endorsements; one said he hadn’t been asked. . . . White House keeping hands off the New York race according to a spokesman who said: “The President thinks his Administration should stay out of partisan primaries and that will be the case here.” There’s been pressure on RMN to make some pro-JVL gesture before June 17.