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June 8. Carter should run strongly in New Jersey (with 108 delegates) and Ohio (152). In Ohio, his chief opposition comes from delegate slates pledged to several favorite sons and a favorite daughter. In New Jersey, uncommitted delegates, their hearts with Humphrey, are still trying to mount an effective challenge. Humphrey encouraged them in three appearances in the Atlantic City area last week, insisting that "primaries do not always reflect what is happening in the party." Brown will also campaign for New Jersey's uncommitteds...
...pondered the question is Dean Francis Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, who a few days ago passed his 25th anniversary up on Mount St. Alban, which looks out over the capital. He is one of eleven people born in the White House (Jan. 17,1915, in a small chamber near the Lincoln Bedroom), grandson of Woodrow Wilson, onetime secretary to F.D.R.'s political chief James Farley and friend or acquaintance of every President since then. The lanky Sayre has some of the Wilson profile and a lot of the inner fiber: he denounced McCarthyism, stood with the civil rights...
...outcome is too close to call. Environmentalists have vowed to mount the most intensive lobbying campaign since their defeat of the SST. Timber men, for their part, have set up "Monongahela Action Committees" to press for the Humphrey bill in every congressional district. Last week some 100 independent loggers drove their huge rigs to the Western Forest Center in Portland, Ore., and staged a mock funeral for their industry, thus dramatizing what they think will happen if Congress does not see the issue their...
Next day, looking exhausted, he flabbergasted friends by announcing that he had decided to stay out, but would still hold himself available in the "unlikely" event of a convention deadlock. The old (64) warrior explained that he lacked the money and organization to mount his fourth campaign for the White House. Nor did he relish the possibility of another defeat...
...while, the committee gave serious consideration to proposing a total ban on all covert activities, reasoning that they were simply incompatible with the tenets of a democratic society. But the final report concluded that the U.S. should be able to mount undercover operations to counter grave threats to the nation. Last February, President Gerald Ford announced new Executive guidelines to control the CIA'S covert activities, but the committee remained unsatisfied, insisting that the restrictions be made even tougher and written into...