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Three of the Nine Old Men—Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black, Tom Clark and William 0. Douglas—expected to retire soon. Freshman Abe Fortas rumored to be LBJ’s choice of successor if Chief Justice Earl Warren, 76 next March, also steps down (unlikely). . . . 34 million Americans, nearly one out of every three adults, get monthly checks from Uncle Sam. . . . Cassius Clay would like to be a Republican, he said at Republican $100-a-plate dinner in Chicago, but Muslims must eschew politics. Main speaker Dwight Eisenhower cooed. . . . Way Out West: Sole U.S. Senator of Spanish descent, Joseph Montoya (D., N.M.), campaigning hard among Mexican-Americans for Gov. Pat Brown in California and Senate candidate Waggoner Carr in Texas. Helen Gahagan Douglas doing her bit for—of all people—-Ronald Reagan. Reagan supported HGD back when both were left-wingers. . . . Hollywood producer Sy Bartlett huddling with partner and former AF Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis LeMay over upcoming Viet war flick Paper Tiger. Bartlett, then a colonel, served under LeMay in WWII. . . . British emigration soaring, with many going to South Africa. Total emigration to SA (24 per cent British) for first half of ’66 up 60 per cent over the corresponding period of *65. . . . Penna. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Milton Shapp reported ready to part with $2½ million more of his personal fortune to put himself in the State House. . . . Right, new tabloid put out by con servative wing of the Wash. D.C. YRs, getting their version of internal squabbles to the Outside.

The strip-tease has been banned in Tahiti. (Tahiti?). . . . Lao-She, 69- year-old author of ’40s novel Rickshaw Boy and Mao Tse-tung’s old friend and ghostwriter, a suicide in Peking after public insult by the Red Guard. Many more suicides expected if Mao/Lin Piao axis reinstitutes hated commune system conscripting peasants for work under Army discipline. . . . Playboy Magazine bought rights to unpublished works of Gustave (Madame Bovary) Flaubert at Frankfurt Book Fair. . . . Greek defense ministry alarmed by Communist plans to immobilize Greek Army units, on standby alert for riots or uprisings. . . . Japan still set on getting into the space race despite humiliating Sept. 26 sputnik-fizzle. Loss of face may spur increase in nation’s paltry ($12 million) space budget. . . .U.S. birthrate plummeting while percentage of working wives increases: from 24 per cent in 1950 to 36 per cent today. . . . Outrage in Catholic France over switch

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Three of the Nine Old Men—Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black, Tom Clark and William 0. Douglas—expected to retire soon. Freshman Abe Fortas rumored to be LBJ’s choice of successor if Chief Justice Earl Warren, 76 next March, also steps down (unlikely). . . . 34 million Americans, nearly one out of every three adults, get monthly checks from Uncle Sam. . . . Cassius Clay would like to be a Republican, he said at Republican $100-a-plate dinner in Chicago, but Muslims must eschew politics. Main speaker Dwight Eisenhower cooed. . . . Way Out West: Sole U.S. Senator of Spanish descent, Joseph Montoya (D., N.M.), campaigning hard among Mexican-Americans for Gov. Pat Brown in California and Senate candidate Waggoner Carr in Texas. Helen Gahagan Douglas doing her bit for—of all people—-Ronald Reagan. Reagan supported HGD back when both were left-wingers. . . . Hollywood producer Sy Bartlett huddling with partner and former AF Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis LeMay over upcoming Viet war flick Paper Tiger. Bartlett, then a colonel, served under LeMay in WWII. . . . British emigration soaring, with many going to South Africa. Total emigration to SA (24 per cent British) for first half of ’66 up 60 per cent over the corresponding period of *65. . . . Penna. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Milton Shapp reported ready to part with $2½ million more of his personal fortune to put himself in the State House. . . . Right, new tabloid put out by con servative wing of the Wash. D.C. YRs, getting their version of internal squabbles to the Outside.

The strip-tease has been banned in Tahiti. (Tahiti?). . . . Lao-She, 69- year-old author of ’40s novel Rickshaw Boy and Mao Tse-tung’s old friend and ghostwriter, a suicide in Peking after public insult by the Red Guard. Many more suicides expected if Mao/Lin Piao axis reinstitutes hated commune system conscripting peasants for work under Army discipline. . . . Playboy Magazine bought rights to unpublished works of Gustave (Madame Bovary) Flaubert at Frankfurt Book Fair. . . . Greek defense ministry alarmed by Communist plans to immobilize Greek Army units, on standby alert for riots or uprisings. . . . Japan still set on getting into the space race despite humiliating Sept. 26 sputnik-fizzle. Loss of face may spur increase in nation’s paltry ($12 million) space budget. . . .U.S. birthrate plummeting while percentage of working wives increases: from 24 per cent in 1950 to 36 per cent today. . . . Outrage in Catholic France over switch