Campaign sidebars: Richard Nixon reportedly has hired 30 ex-FBI men to police polling booths in certain Chicago wards and certain other Points Venal in Texas, Pennsylvania and Missouri. …Prof. Eldridge Cleaver told that class at Berkeley that anyone who votes for any Presidential candidate (except Cleaver himself) is “committing a crime against humanity.” …Long Beach (Calif.) Press Telegram tried to pull a fasty on Max Rafferty in flamboyant story charging he was once a UCLA student agitator, “Just What He’s Fighting Now.” What Rafferty was fighting against in his student days it turns out was Communist agitators on campus…Fair Campaign Practices Committee is urging all news media not to report unsupported political charges in last five days of the campaign, when it is often too late for the accused to defend himself.
As the ADA sees it: only two Republicans out of eleven senators to score 86 or better in second session of 90th Congress were Clifford Case (N.J.), 100, and Jacobs Javits (N.Y.), 86; the other nine were Democrats. Only senators outside the South to score 0 were: Hickenlooper (Iowa), Young (N.D.), Mundt (S.D.) and Bennett (Utah) … Sen. Joseph Clark (Pa.), who has best voting record by ADA standards of any senator now up for election—he has a 99 per cent ADA cumulative liberal quotient—is in serious trouble, could well lose to Rep. Richard Schweiker….Also in a squeaker, Oregon’s Wayne Morse, who in last Portland Oregonian poll was only 1 percentage point ahead of Robert Packwood, with 11 per cent still undecided. Morse, who beat out Robert Duncan in the Democratic primary in May by only 10,000 votes, is running plenty scared…Edgar Eisenhower very active in campaign by former U.S. amateur golf champion Jack Metcalf to upset liberal Democrat Warren Magnuson in Washington. Eisenhower is hitting hard on Magnuson’s support for trade with East European satellites. This is popular issue since Czechoslovakia—but probably not popular enough to turn the trick for the Metcalf camp.
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