THE WEEK

• We were going to write a learned editorial about the UN debate, as is our bounden duty, but we just couldn’t bring ourselves to it. The sight and sound of Andrei Gromyko droning on about American “perfidy” and “aggression”—as if he wasn’t even trying to convince himself, much less anyone else— put us as thoroughly asleep as many of his council-chamber auditors looked in the TV screen. We will say for Ambassador Lodge that he kept his reply short (less than a quarter of the Gromyko verbiage) —though, frankly, we know several single words that would have been adequate.

• Talk about academic freedom, the students at Princeton seemed to be practicing it. At any rate, 388 of them expressed a preference for Richard Nixon for President in a poll last week as against 344 for Stevenson. The Princeton faculty had no such trouble in making up its mind. It came out for Stevenson— 16 to 1.

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• We were going to write a learned editorial about the UN debate, as is our bounden duty, but we just couldn’t bring ourselves to it. The sight and sound of Andrei Gromyko droning on about American “perfidy” and “aggression”—as if he wasn’t even trying to convince himself, much less anyone else— put us as thoroughly asleep as many of his council-chamber auditors looked in the TV screen. We will say for Ambassador Lodge that he kept his reply short (less than a quarter of the Gromyko verbiage) —though, frankly, we know several single words that would have been adequate.

• Talk about academic freedom, the students at Princeton seemed to be practicing it. At any rate, 388 of them expressed a preference for Richard Nixon for President in a poll last week as against 344 for Stevenson. The Princeton faculty had no such trouble in making up its mind. It came out for Stevenson— 16 to 1.