THE WEEK

• stumped department: (From a letter to the N.Y. Daily News, March 30): “I’m an eighteen-year-old unwed mother. Since I’m adult enough to raise a child, shouldn’t I be able to vote?”

• The Republican Assembly of California has resoundingly endorsed Ronald Reagan for governor, greatly disappointing those who believed that the Assemblymen would rise up from the temptation to vote for the man they would like to see governor, and vote instead for the man other people would like to see governor. Reagan has been doing disconcertingly well in California, to the distress of those who would dearly like to see him foam at the mouth and come out for the repeal of the internal combustion engine, or something. And there seems to be very little doubt at this point that Mr. Reagan will win the nomination. We shall then see whether Liberal Republicans will proceed to take their episodic vacation from their preachments in behalf of Republican unity, long enough to subvert Reagan, even as they did Goldwater. It is to Reagan’s credit that he is making it hard for them. He is doing so by disdaining fanaticism while upholding his conservative principles—which are in refreshing contrast to those of the incumbent governor, and the other Republican challenger. Apropos the whole business of the future of the Republican Party, it is worth noting that the Conservative Party of Great Britain, which ran for office on a program in some respects (see Anthony Lejeune) more left-minded than the Laborites’, managed, by pursuing the English version of super-Liberal Republicanism, to take a smashing 41.9 per cent of the national vote.

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• stumped department: (From a letter to the N.Y. Daily News, March 30): “I’m an eighteen-year-old unwed mother. Since I’m adult enough to raise a child, shouldn’t I be able to vote?”

• The Republican Assembly of California has resoundingly endorsed Ronald Reagan for governor, greatly disappointing those who believed that the Assemblymen would rise up from the temptation to vote for the man they would like to see governor, and vote instead for the man other people would like to see governor. Reagan has been doing disconcertingly well in California, to the distress of those who would dearly like to see him foam at the mouth and come out for the repeal of the internal combustion engine, or something. And there seems to be very little doubt at this point that Mr. Reagan will win the nomination. We shall then see whether Liberal Republicans will proceed to take their episodic vacation from their preachments in behalf of Republican unity, long enough to subvert Reagan, even as they did Goldwater. It is to Reagan’s credit that he is making it hard for them. He is doing so by disdaining fanaticism while upholding his conservative principles—which are in refreshing contrast to those of the incumbent governor, and the other Republican challenger. Apropos the whole business of the future of the Republican Party, it is worth noting that the Conservative Party of Great Britain, which ran for office on a program in some respects (see Anthony Lejeune) more left-minded than the Laborites’, managed, by pursuing the English version of super-Liberal Republicanism, to take a smashing 41.9 per cent of the national vote.