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■ Stand-up-and-be-counted-time on Ronald Reagan. In final week of campaign, Chief Justice Earl Warren (once himself the Republican governor of California) was telling intimates he would vote for Democrat Brown. . . . Rep. Senator Thomas Kuchel hadn’t said he would vote for Brown, hadn’t said he wouldn’t, either. . . . Drew Pearson has written expected election eve columns lambasting Reagan (in one he cited heavily from HUAC testimony a decade back to suggest Reagan was then a raving leftist). . . . Eisenhower came out for Reagan—enthusiastically . … No one was surprised that Liberal Ripon Society left Reagan off its list of approved candidates, but everyone was surprised to find that moderate Republican Governor John Rhodes of Ohio was also in Riponian limbo. His transgression: he hasn’t yet whooped it up for Romney for Prexy.

■ Why had Soapy Williams dipped in the polls in final pre-election weeks? According to Worker, because of his refusal to back away from Administration’s Vietnam stand, plus his repeated assertion that best way to beat inflation was by cutting government spending. . . . Freshmen Democratic congressmen, who had been wooed by Administration in Congress, all complaining that Democratic National Committee kept them short of campaign funds. Some were offered list of celebrities who might entertain for them in lieu of cash. . . . Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma, who had been talked into voting against Sen. Dirksen’s prayer amendment, forced to backtrack at last moment and try to persuade his largely fundamentalist constituency that he was for prayer and the Bible. . . . Zoltan Ferency, having made little or no dent in his campaigning against George Romney, quipped toward the end: “People used to ask: ‘What is a Ferency?’ Now they’re asking, ‘Who is Ferency?’ ”

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■ Stand-up-and-be-counted-time on Ronald Reagan. In final week of campaign, Chief Justice Earl Warren (once himself the Republican governor of California) was telling intimates he would vote for Democrat Brown. . . . Rep. Senator Thomas Kuchel hadn’t said he would vote for Brown, hadn’t said he wouldn’t, either. . . . Drew Pearson has written expected election eve columns lambasting Reagan (in one he cited heavily from HUAC testimony a decade back to suggest Reagan was then a raving leftist). . . . Eisenhower came out for Reagan—enthusiastically . … No one was surprised that Liberal Ripon Society left Reagan off its list of approved candidates, but everyone was surprised to find that moderate Republican Governor John Rhodes of Ohio was also in Riponian limbo. His transgression: he hasn’t yet whooped it up for Romney for Prexy.

■ Why had Soapy Williams dipped in the polls in final pre-election weeks? According to Worker, because of his refusal to back away from Administration’s Vietnam stand, plus his repeated assertion that best way to beat inflation was by cutting government spending. . . . Freshmen Democratic congressmen, who had been wooed by Administration in Congress, all complaining that Democratic National Committee kept them short of campaign funds. Some were offered list of celebrities who might entertain for them in lieu of cash. . . . Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma, who had been talked into voting against Sen. Dirksen’s prayer amendment, forced to backtrack at last moment and try to persuade his largely fundamentalist constituency that he was for prayer and the Bible. . . . Zoltan Ferency, having made little or no dent in his campaigning against George Romney, quipped toward the end: “People used to ask: ‘What is a Ferency?’ Now they’re asking, ‘Who is Ferency?’ ”