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The target has been chosen: this summer’s civil rights disorders will center on the State of Mississippi. One tip-off (among many other indications) : an appeal in the Communist-lining National Guardian for members of the National Lawyers Guild (the organization Herbert Brownell threatened to put on the Attorney General’s List) to donate one to three weeks this summer to defending civil rights demonstrators in Mississippi…. That gung-ho civil righter, fellow-traveling folksinger Pete Seeger, reportedly getting rave notices in his current tour of Soviet Union. (Wonder if he’s intoning a Russian version of his “Freedom Now”?)

Latest titillating political tidbit: the possibility that Robert Kennedy will run for Senate in New York this year against Kenneth Keating. (The law is that a senatorial candidate must be a “resident of the state at the time of his election.”) Democratic leaders in New York, who’ve been scouring highways and byways for a candidate other than Rep. Stratton (who keeps on telling them he’s their boy), feel Kennedy is one man who could beat Keating…. It was Keating, incidentally, who revealed earlier this month that the U.S. Army had trained a number of Bung Kamo’s warriors in up-to-date counter-insurgency tactics…. Sen. Frank Church (D., Ida.) comments that there are at least thirty men in and around Washington these days who are behaving in exemplary fashion LBJ-wise. They’re the thirty hopefuls who believe they have a chance at Veepship…. Worth noting: Lodge’s backers are deep in the stop-GoIdwater drive; not so the supporters of Richard Nixon and Governor William Scranton, or not anyway so’s you’d notice.

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The target has been chosen: this summer’s civil rights disorders will center on the State of Mississippi. One tip-off (among many other indications) : an appeal in the Communist-lining National Guardian for members of the National Lawyers Guild (the organization Herbert Brownell threatened to put on the Attorney General’s List) to donate one to three weeks this summer to defending civil rights demonstrators in Mississippi…. That gung-ho civil righter, fellow-traveling folksinger Pete Seeger, reportedly getting rave notices in his current tour of Soviet Union. (Wonder if he’s intoning a Russian version of his “Freedom Now”?)

Latest titillating political tidbit: the possibility that Robert Kennedy will run for Senate in New York this year against Kenneth Keating. (The law is that a senatorial candidate must be a “resident of the state at the time of his election.”) Democratic leaders in New York, who’ve been scouring highways and byways for a candidate other than Rep. Stratton (who keeps on telling them he’s their boy), feel Kennedy is one man who could beat Keating…. It was Keating, incidentally, who revealed earlier this month that the U.S. Army had trained a number of Bung Kamo’s warriors in up-to-date counter-insurgency tactics…. Sen. Frank Church (D., Ida.) comments that there are at least thirty men in and around Washington these days who are behaving in exemplary fashion LBJ-wise. They’re the thirty hopefuls who believe they have a chance at Veepship…. Worth noting: Lodge’s backers are deep in the stop-GoIdwater drive; not so the supporters of Richard Nixon and Governor William Scranton, or not anyway so’s you’d notice.