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■ On Sept. 25, NY Times columnist James Reston virtually threw McGovern’s towel in for him, wrote that since McGovern couldn’t win he might as well stage a high-level Stevensonian sort of a campaign and talk to the people about the issues. . . . McGovern coming in for increasing flak for missing out on important Senate votes. Sen. Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), whose end-the-war amendment was voted down 45 to 42 last week, was mad because McGovern skipped that one. . . . Ten mayors, five of them Democrats, have blasted McGovern for not voting for revenue sharing (which they favor), told him an “unprecedented number of American mayors” would vote against him in November. (Since Jan. 1, McGovern has been on hand for only 27 per cent of Senate roll calls. And Interior Secretary Rogers Morton (who, McGovern charges, is indifferent to environmental problems) says McGovern has attended three (of 130) Senate Interior Committee meetings in past two years.) . . . An in-depth study by the National Observer of Democratic candidates (gubernatorial, senatorial, congressional) finds that only 49.8 per cent of them support McGovern “unequivocally and for the record.” . . . Jimmy the Greek, in his testimony before a congressional committee that is investigating polls and their effect on elections, said the Las Vegas odds are 8 to 1 right now that Nixon will defeat McGovern. . . . No word yet from Charles Taft and his Fair Campaign Practices Committee. GOP Chairman Bob Dole has asked Committee to censure McGovern for having, three times in the past year, compared Richard Nixon to Adolf Hitler.

■ On the campaign trail: People’s World, West Coast Communist weekly, is boosting candidacy of radical Congressman Ron Dellums, regularly lists his speeches and rallies. . . . Not even speeches in his support by maverick Republican Congressmen Don Riegle (Mich.) and Paul McCloskey (Cal.) could do it. ADA Chairman Allard Lowenstein still lost his second primary bid against Rep. John Rooney, who will now run on both the Democratic and Conservative lines in New York. Lowenstein says he hasn’t yet decided whether to run on Liberal Party line. . . . In Florida, conservative Paul Bethel of Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba won a smashing victory (56.2 per cent) in a three-way congressional primary that had its comic aspects. The Miami Herald first endorsed one of Bethel’s opponents, Ralph Milione, then, next day, red-facedly unendorsed him after discovering that he was a onetime employee of Willis (Liberty Lobby) Carto. Bethel is given good chance to win the race in the 13th CD, although registration there is 5 to 1 Democratic. . . . John Kerry, the Vietnam Vets against the War man, won his primary in Massachusetts for the seat of Republican Congressman Bradford Morse (who resigned to take UN appointment), is expected to beat out Paul Cronin, another liberal Republican. . . . Massachusetts Conservative Party running its first congressional candidate, Jack Collins, in the 4th CD, against the left-Catholic incumbent, Father Robert Drinan. . . . Incidentally, it was J. Lawrence McCarty who resigned from executive committee of Massachusetts Conservative Party, along with David Brudnoy, and not John McCarthy (as reported here Sept. 29). McCarthy (with an “h”), a founding father, resigned earlier on. . . . New York’s Conservative Party staging its tenth anniversary gala at the New York Hilton on Friday, Oct. 13. Speakers: Spiro T. Agnew, Sen. James Buckley, William F. Buckley Jr. (for information and tickets contact Conservative Party State Headquarters, 468 Park Avenue South, NYC 10016).

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■ On Sept. 25, NY Times columnist James Reston virtually threw McGovern’s towel in for him, wrote that since McGovern couldn’t win he might as well stage a high-level Stevensonian sort of a campaign and talk to the people about the issues. . . . McGovern coming in for increasing flak for missing out on important Senate votes. Sen. Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), whose end-the-war amendment was voted down 45 to 42 last week, was mad because McGovern skipped that one. . . . Ten mayors, five of them Democrats, have blasted McGovern for not voting for revenue sharing (which they favor), told him an “unprecedented number of American mayors” would vote against him in November. (Since Jan. 1, McGovern has been on hand for only 27 per cent of Senate roll calls. And Interior Secretary Rogers Morton (who, McGovern charges, is indifferent to environmental problems) says McGovern has attended three (of 130) Senate Interior Committee meetings in past two years.) . . . An in-depth study by the National Observer of Democratic candidates (gubernatorial, senatorial, congressional) finds that only 49.8 per cent of them support McGovern “unequivocally and for the record.” . . . Jimmy the Greek, in his testimony before a congressional committee that is investigating polls and their effect on elections, said the Las Vegas odds are 8 to 1 right now that Nixon will defeat McGovern. . . . No word yet from Charles Taft and his Fair Campaign Practices Committee. GOP Chairman Bob Dole has asked Committee to censure McGovern for having, three times in the past year, compared Richard Nixon to Adolf Hitler.

■ On the campaign trail: People’s World, West Coast Communist weekly, is boosting candidacy of radical Congressman Ron Dellums, regularly lists his speeches and rallies. . . . Not even speeches in his support by maverick Republican Congressmen Don Riegle (Mich.) and Paul McCloskey (Cal.) could do it. ADA Chairman Allard Lowenstein still lost his second primary bid against Rep. John Rooney, who will now run on both the Democratic and Conservative lines in New York. Lowenstein says he hasn’t yet decided whether to run on Liberal Party line. . . . In Florida, conservative Paul Bethel of Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba won a smashing victory (56.2 per cent) in a three-way congressional primary that had its comic aspects. The Miami Herald first endorsed one of Bethel’s opponents, Ralph Milione, then, next day, red-facedly unendorsed him after discovering that he was a onetime employee of Willis (Liberty Lobby) Carto. Bethel is given good chance to win the race in the 13th CD, although registration there is 5 to 1 Democratic. . . . John Kerry, the Vietnam Vets against the War man, won his primary in Massachusetts for the seat of Republican Congressman Bradford Morse (who resigned to take UN appointment), is expected to beat out Paul Cronin, another liberal Republican. . . . Massachusetts Conservative Party running its first congressional candidate, Jack Collins, in the 4th CD, against the left-Catholic incumbent, Father Robert Drinan. . . . Incidentally, it was J. Lawrence McCarty who resigned from executive committee of Massachusetts Conservative Party, along with David Brudnoy, and not John McCarthy (as reported here Sept. 29). McCarthy (with an “h”), a founding father, resigned earlier on. . . . New York’s Conservative Party staging its tenth anniversary gala at the New York Hilton on Friday, Oct. 13. Speakers: Spiro T. Agnew, Sen. James Buckley, William F. Buckley Jr. (for information and tickets contact Conservative Party State Headquarters, 468 Park Avenue South, NYC 10016).