For the Record

■ About that New York mayoralty race: it gets more complicated all the time. John Marchi, the Republican- Conservative state senator from Staten Island, has now entered the race despite polite arm-twisting by former Nixon aide Charles McWhorter, a Lindsay fan from way back. What McWhorter and Co. fear is that a hot primary race will further tarnish hizzoner’s already tarnished reputation. . . . Coming in, but as always too late, was Nelson Rockefeller, who publicly supported Lindsay’s candidacy but failed to put personal pressure on Marchi. . . . And, if things were not confused enough already, who says he may, just may, get into race but the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell. . . . John Lindsay, incidentally, is the best paid mayor in America ($50 thou a year) followed by Mayors Washington of Washington, Tate of Philadelphia and White of Boston ($40 thou). Mayor Alioto of San Francisco, poor thing, makes only $38,000 a year, but could be getting out of that job: Alioto is the candidate of Democratic regulars in California to run against Ronald Reagan in ’70. He passes party purity test which Jesse Unruh flunked: opposing LBJ on Vietnam, supporting Robert Kennedy, attacking Richard Daley and voting for Eugene McCarthy in Chicago.

■ Resignation of Ray Bliss as Republican National Committee head should not have come as surprise: It is a Presidential habit to move into key positions men of his own choice even if the incumbents are ideologically in tune. . . . Over at State, Nixon aides obviously trying to get a face-saving settlement of Otepka case by not returning him to his old security job, but offering him a better alternative than he could have got from Dean Rusk. . . . According to Fulton Lewis III, although Nixon has urged the Senate to ratify the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty he won’t be unhappy if the Treaty gets amended or fails to be ratified. Sen. Dirksen is known to feel lukewarmedly about it and Barry Goldwater is heading the opposition. Signing the treaty, he says, will have a “deleterious effect on the Atlantic Alliance” (since it would ensure West Germany’s and Italy’s future nuclear disarmament).

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■ About that New York mayoralty race: it gets more complicated all the time. John Marchi, the Republican- Conservative state senator from Staten Island, has now entered the race despite polite arm-twisting by former Nixon aide Charles McWhorter, a Lindsay fan from way back. What McWhorter and Co. fear is that a hot primary race will further tarnish hizzoner’s already tarnished reputation. . . . Coming in, but as always too late, was Nelson Rockefeller, who publicly supported Lindsay’s candidacy but failed to put personal pressure on Marchi. . . . And, if things were not confused enough already, who says he may, just may, get into race but the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell. . . . John Lindsay, incidentally, is the best paid mayor in America ($50 thou a year) followed by Mayors Washington of Washington, Tate of Philadelphia and White of Boston ($40 thou). Mayor Alioto of San Francisco, poor thing, makes only $38,000 a year, but could be getting out of that job: Alioto is the candidate of Democratic regulars in California to run against Ronald Reagan in ’70. He passes party purity test which Jesse Unruh flunked: opposing LBJ on Vietnam, supporting Robert Kennedy, attacking Richard Daley and voting for Eugene McCarthy in Chicago.

■ Resignation of Ray Bliss as Republican National Committee head should not have come as surprise: It is a Presidential habit to move into key positions men of his own choice even if the incumbents are ideologically in tune. . . . Over at State, Nixon aides obviously trying to get a face-saving settlement of Otepka case by not returning him to his old security job, but offering him a better alternative than he could have got from Dean Rusk. . . . According to Fulton Lewis III, although Nixon has urged the Senate to ratify the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty he won’t be unhappy if the Treaty gets amended or fails to be ratified. Sen. Dirksen is known to feel lukewarmedly about it and Barry Goldwater is heading the opposition. Signing the treaty, he says, will have a “deleterious effect on the Atlantic Alliance” (since it would ensure West Germany’s and Italy’s future nuclear disarmament).