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...while Kennedy Operatives Stephen Smith and Theodore Sorensen have endorsed Humphrey, they are expending most of their energy on New York Democrat Paul O'Dwyer's effort to unseat Republican Senator Jacob Javits. When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds for such antiwar Senate candidates as Oregon's Wayne Morse, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, and Ohio's John Gilligan. McCarthy has requested half an hour on television next week, and conceivably may endorse Humphrey...
...that McCarthy is not so much interested in the outcome of a contest as in the style of individual players. Even during his recent political campaign, he carried a mitt along and used his Secret Service men as a captive team. Now, fresh from two weeks on the French Riviera, the old slugger comes home to a logical assignment: covering the World Series for LIFE...
...expend a lot of effort promoting tourism, the 400 airline executives attending the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting in Cannes have proved to be poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
Though $600,000 in campaign bills are still to be paid, Eugene McCarthy appeared relaxed and unworried while vacationing on the French Riviera last week. In a group with Wife Abigail and one of his chief fund raisers, Wall Street's Howard Stein, he enjoyed his favorite sports-swimming, sunbathing and needling. Said the Senator, weaving a metaphor that he picked up while campaigning in an Illinois textile mill: "Nixon doesn't have woof. Humphrey has lots of woof but no warp...
...that we wouldn't be together when the choice is between Nixon and Wallace and myself," he said. In a brief Washington press con ference, McCarthy merely announced that he would not declare support for any candidate until his return from a va cation on the French Riviera. He added that he would probably not decide to back Nixon...