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...timetable for this week's public hearings calls for testimony from Rockefeller, Lodge, Scranton and Goldwater at morning sessions, and from some 150 representatives of special-interest groups in the afternoons. Each night an eleven-member drafting committee will digest the day's hearings, relating them to position papers already on hand from the candidates, from academic sources, congressional Republicans, and the prestigious Critical Issues Council, which, under the direction of Milton Eisen hower, has issued eleven detailed papers on such topics as Cuba, civil rights and the Far East...
...Drafting Committee hopes to sit down in earnest Friday night. Its three principal writers are: Bryce Harlow, a former Eisenhower speechwriter; Malcolm Moos, another one-time Eisenhower speechwriter, who has been advising Scranton; Karl Hess, a former Washington newsman and one of Goldwater's key advisers. The drafting group will report to the full Platform Committee, hopefully on Saturday. If sharp disputes between Goldwater and moderates break out, Goldwater should be in excellent shape, since a hefty majority of the committee members favor his candidacy...
...Take the Platform." Actually, Goldwater will go to considerable lengths to avoid a platform fight, since a clash over an emotional issue seems to be the only thing that could blow the convention open and give Scranton a chance. Top Goldwater aides are likely to seek compromise rather than a fight, and to suggest: "You take the platform; we'll take the nomination...
...major platform battle, Laird believes that it will be between Goldwater delegates who insist that the party advocate repeal of parts of the new bill and moderates who may propose much tougher measures than are included in the bill. Already, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, the Scranton spokesman on the Platform Committee, has urged a flat statement that the party considers the bill constitutional, which would go directly against Goldwater's declaration in the Senate that it is not. Laird hopes that all factions can get together on a simple statement pledging vigorous enforcement of the new bill...
...Chronicle has pledged blanket convention coverage: Count Marco, for example, taking note of the convention site, the Cow Palace, announced plans to examine the herd of delegates and delegates' wives in search of cows. Editorially, the paper greeted Bill Scranton's entry with hearty cheers...