For the Record

Stamp of approval: the Fair Campaign Practices Committee (which doesn’t always live up to its name) last week cleared Sen. Barry Goldwater of charges of “racism.” “To date [the Senator] has done nothing to inflame the race issue, “ said the Committee, even though “exploitation [of it] might be to his advantage.” . . . Unexpected backlash: Robert Kennedy reportedly has long way to go in winning support of New York’s 1.5 million voting Italians because of his staging of the Valachi TV spectacular before a Senate committee a year ago. . . Organized labor’s main political purpose this year: to get 25 more pro-labor congressmen elected which is what Labor figures it needs to eliminate Section 14B from the Taft Hartley Act. (14B allows individual states to enact right—to—work legislation) . … In AFL-CIO COPE scoreboard (it rates congressmen “right” or “wrong” on votes having to do with labor issues) Hubert Humphrey is tops. He hasn’t voted “wrong”—ever.

International newsmakers: Gen. Thimayya, UN top dog in Cyprus, is the Indian chief who reported in 1960, after personal inspection, that the Indian army was in effective control of the border area from “Ladakh to the Northeast Frontier” (it was only a year later, and from Peking press reports, that India found out the Chinese army had taken over large sections of Ladakh). . . . Christophe Gbenye, head of recently formed “National Liberation Government “ of the Congo, was Lumumba follower , onetime interior minister in the Adoula cabinet, more recently associate of Red Chinese diplomats in Brazzaville. . . . H. A. R. Philby (“the third man”), British diplomat who tipped off Soviet spies Burgess and Maclean that the jig was up, now holds a job with Novosti—a Soviet feature syndicate— and reportedly makes five to six times more than the average Soviet newsman.

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Stamp of approval: the Fair Campaign Practices Committee (which doesn’t always live up to its name) last week cleared Sen. Barry Goldwater of charges of “racism.” “To date [the Senator] has done nothing to inflame the race issue, “ said the Committee, even though “exploitation [of it] might be to his advantage.” . . . Unexpected backlash: Robert Kennedy reportedly has long way to go in winning support of New York’s 1.5 million voting Italians because of his staging of the Valachi TV spectacular before a Senate committee a year ago. . . Organized labor’s main political purpose this year: to get 25 more pro-labor congressmen elected which is what Labor figures it needs to eliminate Section 14B from the Taft Hartley Act. (14B allows individual states to enact right—to—work legislation) . … In AFL-CIO COPE scoreboard (it rates congressmen “right” or “wrong” on votes having to do with labor issues) Hubert Humphrey is tops. He hasn’t voted “wrong”—ever.

International newsmakers: Gen. Thimayya, UN top dog in Cyprus, is the Indian chief who reported in 1960, after personal inspection, that the Indian army was in effective control of the border area from “Ladakh to the Northeast Frontier” (it was only a year later, and from Peking press reports, that India found out the Chinese army had taken over large sections of Ladakh). . . . Christophe Gbenye, head of recently formed “National Liberation Government “ of the Congo, was Lumumba follower , onetime interior minister in the Adoula cabinet, more recently associate of Red Chinese diplomats in Brazzaville. . . . H. A. R. Philby (“the third man”), British diplomat who tipped off Soviet spies Burgess and Maclean that the jig was up, now holds a job with Novosti—a Soviet feature syndicate— and reportedly makes five to six times more than the average Soviet newsman.