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On hand to vote against the Griffin Amendment to restrict busing of school children, Democratic Presidential candidates Muskie, McGovern, Humphrey, Kennedy. Missing: Presidential candidates Henry Jackson (he’s the only one who sends his daughter to an integrated public school) and Vance Hartke, whose candidacy is less than threatening. Vote was close: 50 to 47. . . . Hartke suffered major blow last week when Supreme Court ruled for a recount in his four-thousand-vote 1970 victory over Rep. Richard Roudebush. . . . John Lindsay, who’s been able to sidestep the explosive busing issue so far, got rough handling from crowd of Miami businessmen recently when he called for closer relations with Fidel Castro. Most were Cuban refugees. . . . Lindsay, by the way, has spent more days in Florida since Jan. 1 than in NYC. . . . Actress Shirley MacLaine (a McGovern supporter, wouldn’t you know) getting off ribtickling anti-Lind-say crack: “New York,” she says, “is Lindsay’s Chappaquiddick.”

How impartial is League of Women Voters? It’s come out with its first national congressional rating, which gives score of 100 to Presidential candidates Muskie, Humphrey, Jackson, Kennedy and McCloskey; score of zero to John Ashbrook. . . . McCloskey’s campaign hard-hit financially, so much so that good showing or not in New Hampshire his press secretary, George Murphy, will quit, return to newspapering on the West Coast. . . . McCloskey himself told Nashua, N.H. audience t’other night, he’ll never support Nixon so long as “the bombing is continuing in Vietnam.” . . . McGovern list of contributors shows that at least three of his well-heeled liberal backers have also kicked in to McCloskey campaign till, among them New York eccentric Stewart Mott. . . . Mott, incidentally, has taken out series of ads in influential papers challenging Sen. Muskie to reveal his list of donors, on behalf of “The Committee for Honesty in Politics.”

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On hand to vote against the Griffin Amendment to restrict busing of school children, Democratic Presidential candidates Muskie, McGovern, Humphrey, Kennedy. Missing: Presidential candidates Henry Jackson (he’s the only one who sends his daughter to an integrated public school) and Vance Hartke, whose candidacy is less than threatening. Vote was close: 50 to 47. . . . Hartke suffered major blow last week when Supreme Court ruled for a recount in his four-thousand-vote 1970 victory over Rep. Richard Roudebush. . . . John Lindsay, who’s been able to sidestep the explosive busing issue so far, got rough handling from crowd of Miami businessmen recently when he called for closer relations with Fidel Castro. Most were Cuban refugees. . . . Lindsay, by the way, has spent more days in Florida since Jan. 1 than in NYC. . . . Actress Shirley MacLaine (a McGovern supporter, wouldn’t you know) getting off ribtickling anti-Lind-say crack: “New York,” she says, “is Lindsay’s Chappaquiddick.”

How impartial is League of Women Voters? It’s come out with its first national congressional rating, which gives score of 100 to Presidential candidates Muskie, Humphrey, Jackson, Kennedy and McCloskey; score of zero to John Ashbrook. . . . McCloskey’s campaign hard-hit financially, so much so that good showing or not in New Hampshire his press secretary, George Murphy, will quit, return to newspapering on the West Coast. . . . McCloskey himself told Nashua, N.H. audience t’other night, he’ll never support Nixon so long as “the bombing is continuing in Vietnam.” . . . McGovern list of contributors shows that at least three of his well-heeled liberal backers have also kicked in to McCloskey campaign till, among them New York eccentric Stewart Mott. . . . Mott, incidentally, has taken out series of ads in influential papers challenging Sen. Muskie to reveal his list of donors, on behalf of “The Committee for Honesty in Politics.”