■ How’s this for a question to take the wind out of a politician’s sails? At the press conference called to announce his presidential candidacy, Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp was asked whether he is running for President or just for the job of Secretary of Transportation in the next Democratic Administration. If Shapp has the support of most of the 178 Pennsylvania delegates at the 1976 convention, plus a few more, he will be in a position to strike a deal with some stronger candidate—if there is a brokered convention.
■ Everything is up to date in Kansas City (host of next year’s GOP convention) except the supply of hotel rooms. About 16,000 will be needed. At least 2,500 of them will be at least an hour’s drive away from the convention hall. Some will be sixty miles away, in Topeka. Says a member of the committee that picked Kansas City: this is “not an ideal situation.”
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