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Stephen Schlesinger’s New Democrat ecstatic over John Lindsay’s switch (“It reinforces the liberal wing of the party at a time when progressivism is in grave peril” —grave peril from those “Neo-Nixonites,” Sens. Humphrey and Jackson). New Democrat says it could support either Lindsay or McGovern. . . . Gallup shows 75 per cent of Americans believe Lindsay wants to run for Presidency, only 31 per cent think he can win the Democratic nomination. … In Lindsay’s camp, to run his media campaign, David Garth, who handled Stevenson in ’60, McCarthy in ’68, John Tunney and Adlai III in ’70. . . . New York politicos wondering what’s up with Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy, whose recent sociological pronouncements—they-are-the-victims-of-their-environment bit— make him sound more like a politician than a cop. Could it be that Lindsay is grooming Murphy to run for mayor in ’73, which would help solidify whatever base Lindsay retains in the City? … In New Hampshire last week Rep. Paul McCloskey said he’d stay in the race even if Vietnam had vamoosed as an issue by next spring because Nixon is so often wrong. McCloskey looking less and less like Eugene McCarthy, more and more like Harold Stassen. . . . Communist Daily World, summed, up YAF Presidential nominating convention in Houston a fortnight ago with headline: “Reagan Yields to Agnew As No. 1 Reactionary.

School’s In: And National Association of College Admissions indicates there are thirty thousand unfilled places, mostly in small private liberal arts colleges. Reasons for dropoff: 1) With less pressure from draft some students taking year off, 2) others shopping around for cheaper education (state universities, community colleges), 3) more going in for vocational training. . . . Pressures easing in grade schools. Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies says there were 15.5 per cent fewer children under five in 1970 than in 1960 even though there has been an increase of 29 per cent in the number of women of child-bearing ages (15 to 34). . . . Less pressure, too, on Catholic seminaries which show a drop of 50 per cent in enrollment in past four years (from 46,000 seminarians in 1966 to 24,000 in 1970).

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Stephen Schlesinger’s New Democrat ecstatic over John Lindsay’s switch (“It reinforces the liberal wing of the party at a time when progressivism is in grave peril” —grave peril from those “Neo-Nixonites,” Sens. Humphrey and Jackson). New Democrat says it could support either Lindsay or McGovern. . . . Gallup shows 75 per cent of Americans believe Lindsay wants to run for Presidency, only 31 per cent think he can win the Democratic nomination. … In Lindsay’s camp, to run his media campaign, David Garth, who handled Stevenson in ’60, McCarthy in ’68, John Tunney and Adlai III in ’70. . . . New York politicos wondering what’s up with Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy, whose recent sociological pronouncements—they-are-the-victims-of-their-environment bit— make him sound more like a politician than a cop. Could it be that Lindsay is grooming Murphy to run for mayor in ’73, which would help solidify whatever base Lindsay retains in the City? … In New Hampshire last week Rep. Paul McCloskey said he’d stay in the race even if Vietnam had vamoosed as an issue by next spring because Nixon is so often wrong. McCloskey looking less and less like Eugene McCarthy, more and more like Harold Stassen. . . . Communist Daily World, summed, up YAF Presidential nominating convention in Houston a fortnight ago with headline: “Reagan Yields to Agnew As No. 1 Reactionary.

School’s In: And National Association of College Admissions indicates there are thirty thousand unfilled places, mostly in small private liberal arts colleges. Reasons for dropoff: 1) With less pressure from draft some students taking year off, 2) others shopping around for cheaper education (state universities, community colleges), 3) more going in for vocational training. . . . Pressures easing in grade schools. Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies says there were 15.5 per cent fewer children under five in 1970 than in 1960 even though there has been an increase of 29 per cent in the number of women of child-bearing ages (15 to 34). . . . Less pressure, too, on Catholic seminaries which show a drop of 50 per cent in enrollment in past four years (from 46,000 seminarians in 1966 to 24,000 in 1970).