The Week

■ At latest count, 83,457 articles, editorials and columns of comment related to Dwight Eisenhower’s death had recalled that in his 1961 farewell address he urged that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex.” Exactly one, so far as NR’s researchers have been able to locate, mentioned that General Eisenhower went on to explain that danger as being derived from and subordinate to the primary threat to “the very structure of our society”: namely, “a hostile ideology—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.”

■ Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, writing the majority opinion, has handed down a decision that is widely understood to defend the idea that a man’s home is his castle. The case concerned a prosecution that arose from a man’s possession of obscene material in his home. Justice Marshall tossed the case out on the grounds that what goes on in the man’s home is his own business (saving the normal exceptions such as child-beating, etc.). Strange to say, this is the same Thurgood Marshall who, as spokesman for the Federal Court of Appeals (Southern District, N.Y.) a few years ago, upheld the conviction of national review editor William Rickenbacker for his refusal to comply with a 1960 Census questionnaire about his electrical appliances, bathtubs, and so on. It would appear, from the logic of Justice Marshall, that we will be secure in our homes during the 1970 household survey if we wrap our possessions in dirty film strips.

■ At latest count, 83,457 articles, editorials and columns of comment related to Dwight Eisenhower’s death had recalled that in his 1961 farewell address he urged that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex.” Exactly one, so far as NR’s researchers have been able to locate, mentioned that General Eisenhower went on to explain that danger as being derived from and subordinate to the primary threat to “the very structure of our society”: namely, “a hostile ideology—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.”

■ Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, writing the majority opinion, has handed down a decision that is widely understood to defend the idea that a man’s home is his castle. The case concerned a prosecution that arose from a man’s possession of obscene material in his home. Justice Marshall tossed the case out on the grounds that what goes on in the man’s home is his own business (saving the normal exceptions such as child-beating, etc.). Strange to say, this is the same Thurgood Marshall who, as spokesman for the Federal Court of Appeals (Southern District, N.Y.) a few years ago, upheld the conviction of national review editor William Rickenbacker for his refusal to comply with a 1960 Census questionnaire about his electrical appliances, bathtubs, and so on. It would appear, from the logic of Justice Marshall, that we will be secure in our homes during the 1970 household survey if we wrap our possessions in dirty film strips.