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Helpful Hint for Demonstrators: Guardian (Aug. 24) listed numbers leftist agitators might call in Chicago last week: One number each for National Mobilization Office, Yippie Headquarters, four numbers for “Legal Defense.” . . . ACA took a look at three front-running Democrats— Humphrey, McCarthy and McGovern —and reported all three together rated eight points out of possible 300 on ACA grading system. (On ADA, COPE listings for 1967-1968, McCarthy is a hemidemisemiquaver to left of McGovern.) . . . Henry Ford II, who backed Johnson in 1964 when a lot of Republicans did, has made switch to Democratic Party official: he came out for HHH week before the convention . . . Appropriate setting? —Americans in Britain headed by Henry Steele Commager staged last-minute McCarthy fund-raising drive in—the Playboy Club.

Republican Senator Edward Brooke refusing to go along with attempts to smear Spiro Agnew as “racist.” On Agnew and the Baltimore riots of last April: “Ted Agnew is certainly not a racist. In my view he’s a progressive. The so-called hard line he took in Baltimore does not indicate he’s a racist.” . . . Suggestions to Nelson Rockefeller that he join with Eugene McCarthy on a fourth party ticket did not particularly shock Rocky, according to some associates: he turned down the idea because it was too late in the season to mount effective campaign and get on ballot in many states . . . Idea of fusion also ventilated in influential Newsday, by columnist Robert Mayer, who proposes a McCarthy-Lindsay ticket . . . Fun and games: Now Democratic senatorial candidate Paul O’Dwyer is accusing Jacob Javits of “falsifying his liberal record.”

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Helpful Hint for Demonstrators: Guardian (Aug. 24) listed numbers leftist agitators might call in Chicago last week: One number each for National Mobilization Office, Yippie Headquarters, four numbers for “Legal Defense.” . . . ACA took a look at three front-running Democrats— Humphrey, McCarthy and McGovern —and reported all three together rated eight points out of possible 300 on ACA grading system. (On ADA, COPE listings for 1967-1968, McCarthy is a hemidemisemiquaver to left of McGovern.) . . . Henry Ford II, who backed Johnson in 1964 when a lot of Republicans did, has made switch to Democratic Party official: he came out for HHH week before the convention . . . Appropriate setting? —Americans in Britain headed by Henry Steele Commager staged last-minute McCarthy fund-raising drive in—the Playboy Club.

Republican Senator Edward Brooke refusing to go along with attempts to smear Spiro Agnew as “racist.” On Agnew and the Baltimore riots of last April: “Ted Agnew is certainly not a racist. In my view he’s a progressive. The so-called hard line he took in Baltimore does not indicate he’s a racist.” . . . Suggestions to Nelson Rockefeller that he join with Eugene McCarthy on a fourth party ticket did not particularly shock Rocky, according to some associates: he turned down the idea because it was too late in the season to mount effective campaign and get on ballot in many states . . . Idea of fusion also ventilated in influential Newsday, by columnist Robert Mayer, who proposes a McCarthy-Lindsay ticket . . . Fun and games: Now Democratic senatorial candidate Paul O’Dwyer is accusing Jacob Javits of “falsifying his liberal record.”