For the Record

■ First prize for journalistic enterprise to New York Post for its coverage of The Debate. It signed up the debating teams and coaches of Columbia, Princeton, and Yale to rate Carter and Reagan performance in five categories—organization, strength of documentation, validity of argument, strength of rebuttal, effectiveness of communication. Results: Columbia: Reagan 17, Carter 13; Princeton: Reagan 17, Carter 14; Yale: Reagan 20, Carter 15. . . . The Post also assigned its drama critic, Clive Barnes, to review The Debate as living theater, and Barnes calls it a win for Reagan—“a debate between Mr. Mean and Mr. Nice.” Of Carter, Barnes says: “He has a certain terrier quality to his looks—one imagines he bites strangers and other animals.” . . . Among the networks, ABC gets the kudos with the listener phone bank, which fielded nearly 700,000 calls in the hour following the debate and gave the decision to Reagan 67 to 33 per cent. . . . ABC-TV News also signed on Barry Kaufman, a lie-detector expert, whose instruments indicated Carter often showed signs of “hard stress,” an indication a person is lying. Hardest stress when he denied a secret deal was in the making for the hostages.

■ Last-minute endorsements: Former Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the only black member of the Senate in recent years, was not a bit shocked at the endorsement of Reagan by black leaders Ralph David Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and Fayette, Mississippi Mayor Charles Evers: “I think,” said Brooke, “we should be shocked at black leaders who are endorsing President Carter, particularly after President Carter’s record of failed programs and broken promises.” . . . According to U.S. News Reagan promised Abernathy that if Thurgood Mar-shall should retire from the Supreme Court, he, as President, would name a black lawyer or judge to succeed him. . . . Prominent Democrats for Reagan include: former arms-control negotiator Paul Nitze and former Kennedy and Johnson Cabinet member Eugene Rostow. . . . Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who had, a month earlier, urged his supporters to vote for any third-party candidate—John Anderson, Barry Commoner, or Ed Clark—swung into Reagan’s camp in mid-October, lashing out at Carter for his stands on nuclear disarmament and taxes. . . . There was a brouhaha in Israel when former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman started traveling on the Carter campaign plane, and endorsed him for the Presidency. In Israel, Prime Minister Menahem Begin expressed his “deep regret” over Weizman’s “intervention in the American democratic process.” . . . Less welcome to the Carter camp was Iranian Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh’s publicly stated preference for Carter over Reagan. . . . Neither is any good, concludes John McManus in urging John Birch members to sit this election out. Carter he sees “as a second-echelon member” of The Conspiracy, and Reagan, says McManus, must be “a lackey” of The Conspiracy or he wouldn’t have gotten the nomination in the first place.

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■ First prize for journalistic enterprise to New York Post for its coverage of The Debate. It signed up the debating teams and coaches of Columbia, Princeton, and Yale to rate Carter and Reagan performance in five categories—organization, strength of documentation, validity of argument, strength of rebuttal, effectiveness of communication. Results: Columbia: Reagan 17, Carter 13; Princeton: Reagan 17, Carter 14; Yale: Reagan 20, Carter 15. . . . The Post also assigned its drama critic, Clive Barnes, to review The Debate as living theater, and Barnes calls it a win for Reagan—“a debate between Mr. Mean and Mr. Nice.” Of Carter, Barnes says: “He has a certain terrier quality to his looks—one imagines he bites strangers and other animals.” . . . Among the networks, ABC gets the kudos with the listener phone bank, which fielded nearly 700,000 calls in the hour following the debate and gave the decision to Reagan 67 to 33 per cent. . . . ABC-TV News also signed on Barry Kaufman, a lie-detector expert, whose instruments indicated Carter often showed signs of “hard stress,” an indication a person is lying. Hardest stress when he denied a secret deal was in the making for the hostages.

■ Last-minute endorsements: Former Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the only black member of the Senate in recent years, was not a bit shocked at the endorsement of Reagan by black leaders Ralph David Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and Fayette, Mississippi Mayor Charles Evers: “I think,” said Brooke, “we should be shocked at black leaders who are endorsing President Carter, particularly after President Carter’s record of failed programs and broken promises.” . . . According to U.S. News Reagan promised Abernathy that if Thurgood Mar-shall should retire from the Supreme Court, he, as President, would name a black lawyer or judge to succeed him. . . . Prominent Democrats for Reagan include: former arms-control negotiator Paul Nitze and former Kennedy and Johnson Cabinet member Eugene Rostow. . . . Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who had, a month earlier, urged his supporters to vote for any third-party candidate—John Anderson, Barry Commoner, or Ed Clark—swung into Reagan’s camp in mid-October, lashing out at Carter for his stands on nuclear disarmament and taxes. . . . There was a brouhaha in Israel when former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman started traveling on the Carter campaign plane, and endorsed him for the Presidency. In Israel, Prime Minister Menahem Begin expressed his “deep regret” over Weizman’s “intervention in the American democratic process.” . . . Less welcome to the Carter camp was Iranian Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh’s publicly stated preference for Carter over Reagan. . . . Neither is any good, concludes John McManus in urging John Birch members to sit this election out. Carter he sees “as a second-echelon member” of The Conspiracy, and Reagan, says McManus, must be “a lackey” of The Conspiracy or he wouldn’t have gotten the nomination in the first place.