THE WEEK

• Caryl Chessman, eminent author and rapist, has forwarded a nineteen-page letter along to California’s Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown to the effect that he (Chessman) will gladly sacrifice his (Chessman’s) life if, in so doing, he will advance the cause of the abolition of capital punishment by removing it from the “hysteria and the mob wrath that surrounds the problem . . .” We await the word from Uruguay.

• The current civil rights debate should at least put an end to the charge that senators lead an easy life at the taxpayers’ expense. We imagine that not a few of our beleaguered solons, on both sides of the house, feel that they might be exhausting their vocal and physical resources to better purpose; because all of them know that whatever measure, or name, finally comes out of the parliamentary siege, will have no significant effect on the matter nominally at issue. In the future as in the past, the voting and other civil rights of the southern Negroes will, by and large, expand in accord with the slow evolution of local community sentiment, not the arbitrary ukase of absentee ideologues.

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• Caryl Chessman, eminent author and rapist, has forwarded a nineteen-page letter along to California’s Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown to the effect that he (Chessman) will gladly sacrifice his (Chessman’s) life if, in so doing, he will advance the cause of the abolition of capital punishment by removing it from the “hysteria and the mob wrath that surrounds the problem . . .” We await the word from Uruguay.

• The current civil rights debate should at least put an end to the charge that senators lead an easy life at the taxpayers’ expense. We imagine that not a few of our beleaguered solons, on both sides of the house, feel that they might be exhausting their vocal and physical resources to better purpose; because all of them know that whatever measure, or name, finally comes out of the parliamentary siege, will have no significant effect on the matter nominally at issue. In the future as in the past, the voting and other civil rights of the southern Negroes will, by and large, expand in accord with the slow evolution of local community sentiment, not the arbitrary ukase of absentee ideologues.