Who's for Whom

P:In Little Rock. Governor Orval Faubus. Arkansas' Galahad of segregation, gave the Kennedy-Johnson ticket a gingerly endorsement, but made it clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. P:During the farewells on his departure from the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge received a cable from Rome informing him that the Knights of Maltat had awarded him their Grand Cross of Merit. A top-ranking Roman Catholic laymen's order (among the U.S. members: Joseph Patrick Kennedy, father of the Democratic presidential candidate), the Knights seldom decorate Protestants. For Episcopalian Lodge, the decoration was a rare honor indeed.

P:The 150-member General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God, an evangelical church with some 1,000,000 members, met in Springfield, Mo. and unanimously adopted a resolution opposing a Roman Catholic as President of the U.S. P:Ex-Ballplayer Jackie Robinson joined the campaign retinue of Vice President Richard Nixon as a speechmaker and Negro policy adviser. The Kennedy-leaning New York Post promptly withdrew Robinson's daily column from circulation for the duration of the campaign. Robinson, still a big hero among millions of U.S. Negroes, has long needled Jack Kennedy for not being as fervently in favor of civil rights as he ought to be.

f A charitable, fraternal order begun by the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, Crusaders who ruled Rhodes for two centuries and Malta for nearly three, fought Turks and Barbary pirates, and established hospitals all over Europe. The order still retains a vestigial sovereignty: its headquarters in Rome (population at last count: 2) is half the size of a football field, ranks as the world's smallest independent state. The Knights issue passports, exchange diplomatic missions with 20 nations.

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