So Long, Sherm

"As Maine goes, so goes Adams," quipped political funsters last week. And Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn's telephone jangled with morning-after calls demanding that it better be soon. California's Bill Knowland, running hard, but behind, for Governor, said Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams should resign "immediately." New York Senate Candidate Kenneth Keating added "and for the good of the country." Moaned Arizona's Barry Goldwater, running for a second Senate term: "The harm has already been done."

Three months ago Ike had met a similar barrage with his now-famed "I need him." But last week an aide at the Summer White House in Newport said: "Nobody knows right now if Adams is leaving, because we can't look into the man's head. The President has done more worrying about this than almost any other matter lately. We don't believe that Adams did anything dishonest at all, but everybody thinks he was silly." Translation: pretty soon someone would look into Sherman Adams' head.

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