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...that Vice President Lyndon Johnson disgustedly canceled a Harlem campaign tour with Morgenthau. When Jack Kennedy came to town, Morgenthau got his picture taken with the President-who spent most of his time chatting with Nelson Rockefeller. Morgenthau's big campaign theme is that Rocky, if reelected, will hike state taxes next year; whereupon Morgenthau's ticket mate, Democratic State Comptroller Arthur Levitt, blandly remarked that he saw no evidence of any such Rockefeller intention. Last week, to top it all off, poor Bob Morgenthau came down with the flu. This left his campaign schedule in total tatters...
Local spokesmen indicated yesterday that the Cambridge Chapter of the Barbers' Association has not even called a vote on the price hike. They noted that when a ceiling of $1.75 was set several years ago, the Cambridge chapter did not hike prices for two years...
Wine's popularity increases slightly; the continental airs and graces acquired by summer travelers abroad hike the sales of liqueurs...
Little Olympics. Next week Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his family will also leave on a brief vacation-of a somewhat different sort. With their four older children, Bobby and Ethel will travel west to Washington to fish, hike, and then camp out in the Olympic Mountains ("America's last frontier"). They have trained for the trip by frequent games of touch football (and in Ethel's case, by immersion tests in the Kennedy swimming pool); they may also be accompanied by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who may not be a touch footballer but knows...
...hour after hour training muscles, learning survival techniques, studying mountain-craft, developing leadership. In between come big endurance tests: a five-day climb in windswept high country, a six-mile run up and down mountains (best boy's time so far: 38 min. 10 sec.), a 50-mile hike to test speed and accuracy over a specified route, a 48-hour session alone in the woods without food, which becomes a lesson in the edible qualities of roots, berries, frogs and rabbits...