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...Democratic Governor John McKeithan ad mits that he may well decide to back Barry. The recent Mississippi Democratic convention was filled with pro-Goldwater sentiment. Georgia's Democratic Senators Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge both predict privately that today Barry could carry their state. Pollster Sam Lubell discov ered last week that Goldwater is, as of now, running ahead of Johnson in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina. In Texas, Lubell found Lyndon holding an uneasy lead that could quickly vanish under the pressure of civil rights troubles...
...ASHLAND, ORE. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is the oldest in the U.S. (1935). In the remote forests, casting has to be done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post...
...Times's West Coast edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted a street survey, discov ered he missed the weather forecast, TV listings, movie and theater listings, the stock tables, schedules of athletic events, and the news-in just about that order...
...reaction from Bonn was immediate. C.D.U. spokesmen suddenly discov ered that Strauss was "indispensable," said the party would "sincerely and deeply regret" his departure. Adenauer, who had been cool to Strauss for months, in vited him for two intimate chats at which the Defense Minister unburdened his complaints. The cagey Chancellor listened, then told Strauss that he was a fine fellow whose resignation would force an embarrassing reshuffle of the Cabinet. By the time the talks were over, Munich had faded from Strauss's memory and Bonn felt like home again...
Cherchez la Femme. Baer's wife insisted that her husband was dead. But Frankfurt State Prosecutor Heinz Wolf found that she had never initiated legal proceedings to have him declared so, even though that would have enabled her to claim a widow's pension. Investigators also discov ered that while ostensibly living with her father in a Hamburg suburb, she spent a lot of time in a cottage on the edge of the Sachsenwald, the home of a quiet-spoken woodcutter named Karl Egon Neumann...