Political Notes: Off & Running

Other political developments:

> Boston's Mayor John Collins, 46, formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to succeed Republican Leverett Saltonstall, 73, who is retiring from the U.S. Senate at year's end. Collins became mayor in 1960 by beating a strong Democratic rival backed by John F. Kennedy, has proved a tough, untainted administrator. His principal challenger at the June 10 Democratic nominating convention will be Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 46, who was beaten in his primary bid for re-election as Governor two years ago, and has since taken elocution lessons to develop a more forceful speaking style. The likely G.O.P. opponent: State Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, also 46, who has been accused by conservative Republicans of being a Democratic lookalike, but is still unopposed for his party's nomination.

> Norbert T. ("Nobby") Tiemann, 41, a small-town bank president, became the Republican nominee for Governor of Nebraska with an impressive primary triumph over Val Peterson, 62, a former Governor who subsequently served as federal Civil Defense Administrator and Ambassador to Denmark. Tiemann, a political nobody six months ago, traveled 65,000 miles in a vigorous campaign that brought him face to face with 100,000 Nebraskans, and gives him an early edge in the November election. He faces another up-and-comer, Lieutenant Governor Philip C. Sorensen, 32, younger brother of Theodore, John F. Kennedy's longtime aide, who won the Democratic primary. In another major race, three-term Governor Frank Morrison, 61, who hopes to be the first Democratic Senator elected in Nebraska since 1934, easily won his party's nomination to oppose conservative Republican Carl T. Curtis, 61.

> A novice, though not an unknown, running for the West Virginia house of delegates, made the biggest stir in a statewide primary that—almost incidentally—included races for a U.S. Senate seat and five Congressional seats. The show stealer: Anti-Poverty Worker John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 28, who earlier this year broke family tradition by becoming a Democrat, already is being touted as a future West Virginia Governor. Young Rockefeller, nephew of New York's Republican Governor Nelson and Arkansas' G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop, was the biggest vote getter in a Kanawha County field of 60 candidates for 14 statehouse nominations, is virtually assured of election. Shrugged the lanky (6' 6") bachelor: "I shook a lot of hands."