THE WEEK

• Although no one would be so naive as to ask for principles in a Presidential campaign, we at least have the right to expect a little drama—particularly just now with Broadway’s theaters shut down. So we are grateful to Nelson Rockefeller for breaking the deadly monotony of Mr. Nixon’s soft-shoe march to his party’s nomination. We even think, with Governor Rockefeller, though perhaps for not exactly the same reasons, that it might be a good idea if the Vice President did say something—just a little something—before as well as after the Convention. We hope, however, that he will not encapsulate what he may have to say in those Emmet Hughes-designed Madison Avenue cans that gave a tinny flavor even to some of the rather sound morsels—on armament, for example—that were served up in the course of Mr. Rockefeller’s immodest proposal.

• Izvestia reports with pride that the special section of the State Vegetable and Berry Trading Organization, in cooperation with the Farmers’ Cooperatives, has made it possible for Soviet food stores in Kirov to offer to the public for the first time—potato chips. Who says the USSR can’t surpass capitalism by 1970 ?

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• Although no one would be so naive as to ask for principles in a Presidential campaign, we at least have the right to expect a little drama—particularly just now with Broadway’s theaters shut down. So we are grateful to Nelson Rockefeller for breaking the deadly monotony of Mr. Nixon’s soft-shoe march to his party’s nomination. We even think, with Governor Rockefeller, though perhaps for not exactly the same reasons, that it might be a good idea if the Vice President did say something—just a little something—before as well as after the Convention. We hope, however, that he will not encapsulate what he may have to say in those Emmet Hughes-designed Madison Avenue cans that gave a tinny flavor even to some of the rather sound morsels—on armament, for example—that were served up in the course of Mr. Rockefeller’s immodest proposal.

• Izvestia reports with pride that the special section of the State Vegetable and Berry Trading Organization, in cooperation with the Farmers’ Cooperatives, has made it possible for Soviet food stores in Kirov to offer to the public for the first time—potato chips. Who says the USSR can’t surpass capitalism by 1970 ?