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Instant analysis: Minutes after RFK was proclaimed winner of Indiana primary his aides were telling TV cameramen that he got both Negro and ethnic bluecollar vote. Subsequent probe by Gary Post-Tribune indicates it ain’t so (bluecollars were split) . . . Angry, opera singer Leontyne Price, when she found her name among sponsors of RFK in N.Y. Times advertisement, wants to know how many other “prominent people were victimized in the same way.” (Answer: at least one other) . . . Claremont Courier points out one reason for massive turnouts for Bobby is free bus rides from college campuses to rallies, paid for by Kennedy organization . . It’s been six weeks since either Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy has turned up for a Senate roll call vote . . . Added to list of Presidential candidates who will get regular State Department foreign policy briefings: Harold Stassen and George Wallace, provoking howl from excluded Dick Gregory, who reminds us he is also running for Presidency . . . What do you know: Stewart Mott, remember him? He launched Committee for a Republican Alternative when Rocky pulled out of race, which melded into Citizens for Rockefeller when Rocky moved back in, turned up at Gene McCarthy Madison Square Garden rally a week ago with a check for $50,000 for Gene, and, less than a week later, gave $100 per person reception for Democratic dove Sen. Ernest Gruening of Alaska in his New York apartment. (What Mott means by Republican Alternative apparently is any alternative to a Republican.)

Foul balls: Robert Duncan, who had been running 2-1 ahead of Wayne Morse in Oregon polls two months ago, lost his most important issue, the Vietnam war, when LBJ opted for peace talks, then was clobbered by announcement that Lister Hill is retiring, which makes Wayne Morse chairman of Senate Labor Committee next January; Morse hitting that point hard. At poll-time Morse was leading Duncan. . . . Oregon voters wading through 100 names before reaching Presidential candidates; ballot is almost a yard wide.

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C. H. Simonds

Instant analysis: Minutes after RFK was proclaimed winner of Indiana primary his aides were telling TV cameramen that he got both Negro and ethnic bluecollar vote. Subsequent probe by Gary Post-Tribune indicates it ain’t so (bluecollars were split) . . . Angry, opera singer Leontyne Price, when she found her name among sponsors of RFK in N.Y. Times advertisement, wants to know how many other “prominent people were victimized in the same way.” (Answer: at least one other) . . . Claremont Courier points out one reason for massive turnouts for Bobby is free bus rides from college campuses to rallies, paid for by Kennedy organization . . It’s been six weeks since either Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy has turned up for a Senate roll call vote . . . Added to list of Presidential candidates who will get regular State Department foreign policy briefings: Harold Stassen and George Wallace, provoking howl from excluded Dick Gregory, who reminds us he is also running for Presidency . . . What do you know: Stewart Mott, remember him? He launched Committee for a Republican Alternative when Rocky pulled out of race, which melded into Citizens for Rockefeller when Rocky moved back in, turned up at Gene McCarthy Madison Square Garden rally a week ago with a check for $50,000 for Gene, and, less than a week later, gave $100 per person reception for Democratic dove Sen. Ernest Gruening of Alaska in his New York apartment. (What Mott means by Republican Alternative apparently is any alternative to a Republican.)

Foul balls: Robert Duncan, who had been running 2-1 ahead of Wayne Morse in Oregon polls two months ago, lost his most important issue, the Vietnam war, when LBJ opted for peace talks, then was clobbered by announcement that Lister Hill is retiring, which makes Wayne Morse chairman of Senate Labor Committee next January; Morse hitting that point hard. At poll-time Morse was leading Duncan. . . . Oregon voters wading through 100 names before reaching Presidential candidates; ballot is almost a yard wide.