Newest member of Senator Kennedy’s campaign coterie: the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , who has been named a “consultant” on “urban affairs.” Powell will devote the rest of the month to campaign speeches for Democratic ticket. . . . Jackie Robinson, on Richard Nixon’s campaign staff, says as of now he believes Democrats have edge on Negro votes. . . . GOP National Comit- tee has turned out “Kennedy Absenteeism Kit,” a 17½ foot-long sheet of paper listing votes Kennedy skipped in his eight Senate years. . . . Republicans say reason Kennedy so seldom mentions Senator Johnson in his campaign speeches is because they differed 238 times in their Senate votes. . . . Job no one is angling for in Republican circles: next Secretary of Agriculture.
Latest opinion in mixed-up Michigan political picture is that Democrat John Swainson will win gubernatorial election, but that Nixon will carry state. . . . Record 13,000 crowd at JFK rally in Flint was aided by free raffle .tickets UAW gave every spectator on a 1960 Buick. . . . Several meetings of Dr. Arthur Sharron, the conservative professor of economics running against ADA-supported Representative William Moorhead in Pennsylvania, have been broken up by opposition rowdies.




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