The Week

■ To celebrate Thanksgiving Day, a couple dozen Indians began by burying Plymouth Rock in sand (“A curse on this rock,” intoned one of the braves), and then went on to board Mayflower II. Once aboard, they amused themselves by climbing the rigging, tearing down flags, and throwing a mannequin of the master of the original Mayflower into the water. At which point the cavalry was sent for, but the Indians retreated before any arrests were made.

■ New York’s Conservative Party, basking in its Buckley victory, continues to shape the politics of the future. In 1968 liberal New York Republicans managed to keep Nixon’s name off the Conservative ticket, an ideological exercise which might have cost Nixon the state. But times have changed. Not only did Buckley beat Goodell but Rocky won big by appealing to conservative voters. And if Rocky has discovered where the mainstream flows, Nixon, whose divining rod is no less sure, cannot be far behind. Last November’s outcome indicates that a Buckley blessing will bring in the votes; Javits, on the other hand, won’t even be running in ’72. So it is that in the past week Mr. Nixon has been playing and praying with the leaders of the Conservative Party and plans, no doubt, to appear on the party’s line in ’72. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by a prophet, “the Conservative Party will be a major influence in politics for the foreseeable future.”

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■ To celebrate Thanksgiving Day, a couple dozen Indians began by burying Plymouth Rock in sand (“A curse on this rock,” intoned one of the braves), and then went on to board Mayflower II. Once aboard, they amused themselves by climbing the rigging, tearing down flags, and throwing a mannequin of the master of the original Mayflower into the water. At which point the cavalry was sent for, but the Indians retreated before any arrests were made.

■ New York’s Conservative Party, basking in its Buckley victory, continues to shape the politics of the future. In 1968 liberal New York Republicans managed to keep Nixon’s name off the Conservative ticket, an ideological exercise which might have cost Nixon the state. But times have changed. Not only did Buckley beat Goodell but Rocky won big by appealing to conservative voters. And if Rocky has discovered where the mainstream flows, Nixon, whose divining rod is no less sure, cannot be far behind. Last November’s outcome indicates that a Buckley blessing will bring in the votes; Javits, on the other hand, won’t even be running in ’72. So it is that in the past week Mr. Nixon has been playing and praying with the leaders of the Conservative Party and plans, no doubt, to appear on the party’s line in ’72. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by a prophet, “the Conservative Party will be a major influence in politics for the foreseeable future.”