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...primaries and caucuses, then the party would be in ruins, the nomination scarcely worth having. Perhaps naturally, Humphrey dismisses that idea: "The party is weary of temper tantrums of juveniles who, if they don't get their way, are going to bolt." But Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, himself an early presidential contender, shares a foreboding that a convention defeat for McGovern would mean a disastrous fracturing of the Democratic Party-"It'd make 1968 look like Little League ball compared to the Baltimore Orioles...
...recent Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Indianapolis brought out some fine literary ruffles and flourishes. Senator Birch Bayh gave a deft demonstration of cliche clustering with his characterization of "a rubber-stamp candidate chosen by the vested interests in a smoke-filled room." Senator Vance Hartke offered some introspective metaphysics: "What must we seem to the deeper inner selves of ourselves?" And State Democratic Chairman Gordon St. Angelo, when asked if he was trying to get Teddy Kennedy to run for President, showed old Mrs. Malaprop a thing or two: "I haven't made any ovations...
Ervin, who is sponsoring a bill that would set limits on executive privilege, wants to subpoena Flanigan to appear before the committee. The maneuver failed narrowly the first time on a tie vote along party lines, but Ervin intends to try again. Democratic Senators John McClellan and Birch Bayh were absent when the vote was taken. Bayh is sure to support Ervin, and McClellan may also go along. Then it will be up to Nixon to decide whether to instruct Flanigan to ignore the subpoena, thus risking the further impression that the White House has something to hide...
Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs, said yesterday that he did not lobby on the University's behalf to insure the bill would not apply to Harvard. Bayh's office said, however, that several other private universities, including Dartmouth, had lobbied against a blanket anti-sex discrimination proposal that would have affected undergraduate admissions...
Daly said he had been conacted by Bayh's office and had reiterated the position he had taken in the fall. He told Bayh that he "would be in favor" of the amendment if it did not apply to private undergraduate admissions, he said...