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AFL-CIO has two political task forces already at work: one whooping it up for Gov. Pat Brown, the second energetically involved in Paul Douglas-Chuck Percy senatorial battle in Ill. Significance of latter: George Meany,a strong anti-Communist, fears that ultra-Liberals who have turned on Douglas because of his pro-Johnson position on Vietnam may yet sink him. … Kind of tensions building in dispirited Brown camp (the smear isn’t taking) resulted last week in fist fight between campaign manager Don Bradley and key aide Frederick Dutton, a U. of Cal. regent. . . . Sen. George Murphy, who has been instrumental in raising over $2 million for Republican candidates in last two years, campaigning vigorously for all Republicans: including Liberals Charles Percy and Mark Hatfield. This could make it hard for Sen. Thomas Kuchel who’s been sulking in his hacienda since Ronald Reagan got the nod.

Literary Notes from the Kremlin: The wife of jailed Soviet author Yuli Daniel reports he was placed on short rations at his labor camp for 25 days recently; author Marc Slonin appeals to Western intellectuals to beat propaganda drums so that Daniel and Andrei Sinyavski will be allowed to receive food parcels. … Pravda announces there’s to be no rehabilitation of Trotsky in connection with 50th Anniversary celebrations of Russian revolution next year. . . . First edition of .Bible stories published in Soviet Union since the Revolution for sale to public gobbled up from bookstores in matter of hours. It was 100,000 print run. . . . Also popular, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood which Russians pirated and printed without permission, without royalty payments and with ideological emendations and cuts. … First Moscow telephone book in four years just out, a printing of 40,000 for Moscow’s 6.5 million people. . . . Soviet author-at-large Valery Tarsis, who served time in a Soviet insane asylum, has asked for and received Greek citizenship.

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AFL-CIO has two political task forces already at work: one whooping it up for Gov. Pat Brown, the second energetically involved in Paul Douglas-Chuck Percy senatorial battle in Ill. Significance of latter: George Meany,a strong anti-Communist, fears that ultra-Liberals who have turned on Douglas because of his pro-Johnson position on Vietnam may yet sink him. … Kind of tensions building in dispirited Brown camp (the smear isn’t taking) resulted last week in fist fight between campaign manager Don Bradley and key aide Frederick Dutton, a U. of Cal. regent. . . . Sen. George Murphy, who has been instrumental in raising over $2 million for Republican candidates in last two years, campaigning vigorously for all Republicans: including Liberals Charles Percy and Mark Hatfield. This could make it hard for Sen. Thomas Kuchel who’s been sulking in his hacienda since Ronald Reagan got the nod.

Literary Notes from the Kremlin: The wife of jailed Soviet author Yuli Daniel reports he was placed on short rations at his labor camp for 25 days recently; author Marc Slonin appeals to Western intellectuals to beat propaganda drums so that Daniel and Andrei Sinyavski will be allowed to receive food parcels. … Pravda announces there’s to be no rehabilitation of Trotsky in connection with 50th Anniversary celebrations of Russian revolution next year. . . . First edition of .Bible stories published in Soviet Union since the Revolution for sale to public gobbled up from bookstores in matter of hours. It was 100,000 print run. . . . Also popular, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood which Russians pirated and printed without permission, without royalty payments and with ideological emendations and cuts. … First Moscow telephone book in four years just out, a printing of 40,000 for Moscow’s 6.5 million people. . . . Soviet author-at-large Valery Tarsis, who served time in a Soviet insane asylum, has asked for and received Greek citizenship.