Foul

In the FDRevering New York Post, which doesn't like Bob Taft, the story rated five columns. The headline: SENATOR TAFT'S 7-DAY DIET--HOW HE POL-LOWS HIS OWN ADVICE TO 'EAT LESS MEAT.'

The Post gave readers a bite-by-bite account of 21 elaborate meals, from scrambled eggs to sirloin steaks, eaten by Senator and Mrs. Taft on their campaign trek through the West (TIME, Oct. 6). The Post's sarcastic purpose: "To determine--from Senator Taft's example . . . how the average American should ration himself." Broadcaster Don Hollenbeck, referee of the weekly CBS Views the Press, promptly called a foul. Said Hollenbeck, who doesn't like Bob Taft either: "It was quite a propaganda job. . . . The purpose was ... to make Mr. Taft and his hosts out to be a bunch of hypocrites. [But] Senator Taft was on a political speaking tour. . . . Meals . . . had been prepared far in advance . . . and it was not for him to dictate to his hosts what [to serve]. . . . It's an ancient trick to smear a man by the use of such backhanded tricks. . . . It's a point which readers who are going to follow the fortunes of their candidates in all newspapers might do well to bear in mind."

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