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Republicans confident they will score net gain in House no matter what happens in Presidential race. . . . .Gallup says 2 per cent more Americans undecided on Presidential contest in mid-October than in late September (Great Debates or no Great Debates). . . .hat about size of Catholic vote? About one in four voters is a Catholic, but Catholics tend to vote more regularly than other groups; Catholics are concentrated geographically. . . . Newspaper polls in South Carolina show voters favoring Nixon 3-1. Local Democrats bitter that Senator Strom Thurmond has not endorsed national ticket. . . . Henry Wallace refused to endorse either candidate but gives Nixon backhand support. Kennedy victory, says Wallace, would mean 50 per cent higher food prices. . . . Hubert Humphrey, who was leading his Republican opponent, Kenneth Peterson, by 20 points in August, holds two-point lead in latest Minnesota straw poll. . . . Lyndon Johnson’s new slogan, say Texans, is: “Have fence, will straddle.”

The CIA, says a prominent Cuban anti-Communist exile, looks favorably on two anti-Castro groups in Florida which are infiltrated by secret Communists. . . . Dominican businessmen in New York predict Trujillo will fall within six months; claim he will be replaced by violently anti-U.S. regime. . . . U.S. firms in Venezuela fear Communist coup there; many studying problem of withdrawal.

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