No election casualties among members of House Rules Committee, prime target of Liberals. Ditto for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. There’s one vacancy on each, however, for Sam Rayburn, with President Kennedy over his shoulder, to fill. . . . Democrat Kennedy and Republican Case both won in New Jersey. Local observers explain: 1) Suburban GOP voters stayed at home ; 2) Labor bosses passed the word for Kennedy-and-Case. . . . Three conservatives loom as possible candidates for now-vacant Texas senatorial seat: former Governor Allan Shivers, Democrat Jack Cox, and Republican John Towers, who put up stout fight against much-better-known Johnson. . . . Senator Styles Bridges (N.H.) won fifth term by largest majority ever given him, says “we won because we waged a vigorous campaign. We did not namby-pamby the opposition. ” . . . Representative Stuyvesant Wainwright (N.Y.), first Rockefeller-for-President booster last fall, defeated for re-election.
Trade union leader Frank Cousins, Britain’s most influential advocate of unilateral disarmament, has a son working in an H-bomb plant. . . . Jacques Soustelle, leading advocate of a French Algeria, will be in New York when the Algerian dispute is brought before the UN later this month. . . .U.S. Intelligence believes Red China will soon have a nuclear bomb, assembled in China with the help of Russian components and technicians. . . . Diplomats are making bets on the upcoming contest between Congo’s anti-Lumumba President Kasavubu and UN’s pro-Lumumba Rajeshwar Dayal, supported by Guinea, Ghana and six other Asian and African nations. Outcome may determine whether the Soviet gets control of the Congo, added seats in the UN, and another seat on the World Court. . . . Senate Internal Security Subcommittee has received evidence which would explain why our Caribbean desk in the State Department promoted Castro to power despite evidence that he, Raul, and Che Guevara were advance Communist agents.




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