■ Day after Richard Nixon got very warm reception there, Democrats’ National Chairman Robert Strauss showed up at AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla. On the menu: Cold shoulder. George Meany growled that Strauss’ party is still a “shambles”; said Strauss wouldn’t be asked to address Council or very cloutful Committee on Political Education (COPE). . . . Looking toward 1974: Barry Goldwater will probably run for re-election after all (he’d earlier let it be rumored he wouldn’t). . . . Democrats hope to pick up Colorado Sen. Peter Dominick’s seat. . . . South Dakota Republicans think George McGovern can be beaten; are looking for strong candidate, plenty of early seed money to build an effective organization. . . . Though 67 per cent of American adults may favor Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s life-term-for-pushers idea, Kent State U. President Glenn A. Olds goes him one better, says those who hook people on drugs “should be shot.”
■ Yale Law Prof. Alexander M. Bickel will represent AFTRA in its appeal of landmark Buckley decision that news commentators mustn’t be forced to join union. Buckley will be represented by C. Dickerman Williams. . . . Poor George Romney revisited Lou Gordon’s Detroit TV interview show, where he made disastrous “brainwashing” comment back in ’68. Gordon: “You’re still an idealist, aren’t you?” Romney said yes, then: “Lou, you haven’t changed either. You throw all the dirt you can . . . and all of the mosquitoes and everything, and then you expect a fellow to sit here and answer all of it in two or three minutes, and it’s just impossible.” Whereupon he threw his mike on the floor and walked out. Mosquitoes? . . . Former NR staffer Neal B. Freeman promoted to post of Editor at King Features Syndicate, with vice presidency expected to come soon. . . .
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