The Week

• The Republican Party is going after the egghead vote, an AP dispatch reveals, the job of rounding up the intellectuals having been explicitly assigned by Senator Thruston Morton to an aide certified as an Associate Professor of Political Science, on furlough from Stanford University, with the resplendent name of Cornelius P. Cotter. The job will perhaps be easier to do now that the Republican Party is getting ready to retire its Pride & Joy, whose typical response over the past eight years to political challenges has not been notably thoughtful, let alone philosophical. Granted the Republican Party of anti-Communism via Camp David, anti-inflation via increasing government expenditures, states rights via Brown v. Board of Education, the free market via monopoly unionism, better education via HEW, national independence via the World Court—is enough to confound intellectually-minded folk. But perhaps it is as simple as catching them on the run from the harum-scarum of Democratic eggheadery. There is plenty to run from, even if not too much to run to; sogotoit, Cornelius.

• Senator Wayne Morse, the Oregon enigma, has entered several Presidential primaries against Senators Humphrey and Kennedy because, explains Morse, both Humphrey and Kennedy voted for that horrendous slave labor bill Congress okayed last session. Any convention delegates Morse garners, he makes it known, he will throw Adlai Stevenson’s way. That’s the Adlai Stevenson who, subsequent to the steel strike settlement, opined to a handy newspaper reporter that what we need is a considerably tougher labor law than the new one, to protect the public interest. Meanwhile, George Meany (who is still Labor, isn’t he?) praises Senator Kennedy and criticizes Vice President Nixon, who helped settle the steel strike. Meany had nothing to say about Morse. But then, Morse hasn’t had anything to say about Meany —yet. All this is known as politics.

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• The Republican Party is going after the egghead vote, an AP dispatch reveals, the job of rounding up the intellectuals having been explicitly assigned by Senator Thruston Morton to an aide certified as an Associate Professor of Political Science, on furlough from Stanford University, with the resplendent name of Cornelius P. Cotter. The job will perhaps be easier to do now that the Republican Party is getting ready to retire its Pride & Joy, whose typical response over the past eight years to political challenges has not been notably thoughtful, let alone philosophical. Granted the Republican Party of anti-Communism via Camp David, anti-inflation via increasing government expenditures, states rights via Brown v. Board of Education, the free market via monopoly unionism, better education via HEW, national independence via the World Court—is enough to confound intellectually-minded folk. But perhaps it is as simple as catching them on the run from the harum-scarum of Democratic eggheadery. There is plenty to run from, even if not too much to run to; sogotoit, Cornelius.

• Senator Wayne Morse, the Oregon enigma, has entered several Presidential primaries against Senators Humphrey and Kennedy because, explains Morse, both Humphrey and Kennedy voted for that horrendous slave labor bill Congress okayed last session. Any convention delegates Morse garners, he makes it known, he will throw Adlai Stevenson’s way. That’s the Adlai Stevenson who, subsequent to the steel strike settlement, opined to a handy newspaper reporter that what we need is a considerably tougher labor law than the new one, to protect the public interest. Meanwhile, George Meany (who is still Labor, isn’t he?) praises Senator Kennedy and criticizes Vice President Nixon, who helped settle the steel strike. Meany had nothing to say about Morse. But then, Morse hasn’t had anything to say about Meany —yet. All this is known as politics.