Gov. George Wallace wants to rack up more than one million votes in primaries outside the Deep South. Purpose, not only to demonstrate northern and western opposition to Civil Rights Bill, but also to have some say in Vice Presidential choice at Atlantic City. The dates of the primaries to watch are May 5 (Indiana), May 14 (Oregon—write-in), May 19 (Maryland)…. You’d never guess_ it from reading Massachusett s press but Sen. Goldwater has outside chance of copping a handful Of Mass.’ s 34 convention delegates in this week’ s (April 28) primary despite pressure by Sen. Saltonstall and other GOP leaders for big Lodge vote…. Harvard’s gift to Modern Republicanism, Advance Magazine (which moved from Harvard to Washington along with the New Frontier), announced last week it was ceasing publication, never having recovered financially from an anti-JFK issue which reached its subscribers Nov. 22.
One effect of anti-Goulart coup in Brazil: the value of the cruzeiro is up. When the banks reopened April 7, the cruzeiro, which had been trading at 2,000 to the U.S. dollar a week earlier, was quoted at 1,300. (When Goulart took office 30 months earlier, it was 300 to the dollar)…. Hong Kong reports, quoting Russian refugees, say Red China has cleared and fortified a belt twenty miles deep in Sinkiang province along disputed Soviet-Red Chinese border. • • • European intelligence sources confirm U.S. estimate that Russians have failed in at least fifteen tries at placing spacecraft on moon or planets since 1961…. Yemen royalists resorting to terrorist tactics in fight against Republican government. Followers of the ousted Iman killed a dozen or more Soviet “advisers” serving with Sallal’s forces.




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