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Election tidbits: Around some of the TV networks knives are being sharpened for TV and movie performers and stars who have actively campaigned for Goldwater (yes, Virginia, there are quite a few who have). Move originating mostly with the TV writers. . . . Also planning a hard time for their colleagues, a group of gung-ho Liberal Democratic congressmen who hope to reorganize the House in January mittout benefit of proBarry Southern Democrats. . . . Still going strong in Texas, young George Bush, running against incumbent Liberal Sen. Ralph Yarborough. … Gov. Connally, incidentally, continues to run ahead of Lyndon Johnson in Texas polls. … In Michigan, prolonged Detroit newspaper strike hurting Democratic gubernatorial contender Neil Staebler. Staebler, much less known than his rival, Gov. George Romney, finding out that TV and radio spots do not replace daily news coverage. . . . Bumper sticker of the week: “Drive Carefully. The Life You Save May Vote for Goldwater.”

Errumph: Postmaster General John Gronouski (well it is a political post, isn’t it?) knows his place. He has just put out a stamp commemorating Social Security with the motto : “For the People. By the People.” . . . Congressman Gross (R., Iowa) charges Gronouski also has ordered postmasters throughout the country to hang 3×5 foot pictures of LBJ and J. Gronouski, at estimated cost of $500,000. . . . The General Services Administration (the government’s supply house) has just issued 40,000 photo-portraits of Johnson for use in government buildings.

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Election tidbits: Around some of the TV networks knives are being sharpened for TV and movie performers and stars who have actively campaigned for Goldwater (yes, Virginia, there are quite a few who have). Move originating mostly with the TV writers. . . . Also planning a hard time for their colleagues, a group of gung-ho Liberal Democratic congressmen who hope to reorganize the House in January mittout benefit of proBarry Southern Democrats. . . . Still going strong in Texas, young George Bush, running against incumbent Liberal Sen. Ralph Yarborough. … Gov. Connally, incidentally, continues to run ahead of Lyndon Johnson in Texas polls. … In Michigan, prolonged Detroit newspaper strike hurting Democratic gubernatorial contender Neil Staebler. Staebler, much less known than his rival, Gov. George Romney, finding out that TV and radio spots do not replace daily news coverage. . . . Bumper sticker of the week: “Drive Carefully. The Life You Save May Vote for Goldwater.”

Errumph: Postmaster General John Gronouski (well it is a political post, isn’t it?) knows his place. He has just put out a stamp commemorating Social Security with the motto : “For the People. By the People.” . . . Congressman Gross (R., Iowa) charges Gronouski also has ordered postmasters throughout the country to hang 3×5 foot pictures of LBJ and J. Gronouski, at estimated cost of $500,000. . . . The General Services Administration (the government’s supply house) has just issued 40,000 photo-portraits of Johnson for use in government buildings.