The Week

George Romney’s pratfall out of the ring was an appropriate anti-climax to the most inept Presidential campaign within memory. That jutting jaw proved, after all, to be nothing but papier-maché and the geyser of evangelistic rhetoric sputtered out like the last gurgle of the dishwater. The shadow-boxing was too much for this Champion of the Moderates. He threw in the towel even before the bell rang for the first round, leaving his manager, trainers and backers to hand out the rain checks and try to appease the customers. Still, everybody really knew Brainwashed George was only a stand-in for Reluctant Rocky. Now the principal, his strategy of silent approach pulled out from under him by his bumbling protege, will have to make up his mind, or have it made up for him, whether the confused, divided, demoralized forces of the Republican Left can get together in a serious fight for the nomination. Though there is a lot of rough country to cross between here and August, West as well as East, at the moment a broad boulevard seems to have opened before the smoothly running wagons of Richard Nixon, who found it wonderfully easy to combine personal generosity and tactical adroitness in his comment on Romney’s collapse. At his point it looks as if Rockefeller would have to pull a Lodge in the New Hampshire primary to knock Nixon off the center of the high road.

Put down that goldfish and crawl, baby! The student government at the University of Oregon held a three-day symposium on “social revolution” the other day. A friend and former colleague of ours, Mr. L. Brent Bozell (now editor of Triumph Magazine) , attended and (bless him) reported back. LeRoi Jones announced that Negroes will take over the cities of New York, Newark, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington and Gary, or else burn them. The students cheered. A U. of O. faculty member, Claude De Berry, dismissed integration as ridiculous. The students were ecstatic. De Berry is director of the University’s School Desegregation Training and Research Institute. Ben Stewart, leader of the Black Student Union at San Jose (Cal.) State College, told white people to die and denounced them all as practicers of a particular form of incest. The students giggled delightedly. When Mr. Bozell and Jay Parker, a black member of Young Americans for Freedom, attempted to present their views, the students left the hall.

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George Romney’s pratfall out of the ring was an appropriate anti-climax to the most inept Presidential campaign within memory. That jutting jaw proved, after all, to be nothing but papier-maché and the geyser of evangelistic rhetoric sputtered out like the last gurgle of the dishwater. The shadow-boxing was too much for this Champion of the Moderates. He threw in the towel even before the bell rang for the first round, leaving his manager, trainers and backers to hand out the rain checks and try to appease the customers. Still, everybody really knew Brainwashed George was only a stand-in for Reluctant Rocky. Now the principal, his strategy of silent approach pulled out from under him by his bumbling protege, will have to make up his mind, or have it made up for him, whether the confused, divided, demoralized forces of the Republican Left can get together in a serious fight for the nomination. Though there is a lot of rough country to cross between here and August, West as well as East, at the moment a broad boulevard seems to have opened before the smoothly running wagons of Richard Nixon, who found it wonderfully easy to combine personal generosity and tactical adroitness in his comment on Romney’s collapse. At his point it looks as if Rockefeller would have to pull a Lodge in the New Hampshire primary to knock Nixon off the center of the high road.

Put down that goldfish and crawl, baby! The student government at the University of Oregon held a three-day symposium on “social revolution” the other day. A friend and former colleague of ours, Mr. L. Brent Bozell (now editor of Triumph Magazine) , attended and (bless him) reported back. LeRoi Jones announced that Negroes will take over the cities of New York, Newark, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington and Gary, or else burn them. The students cheered. A U. of O. faculty member, Claude De Berry, dismissed integration as ridiculous. The students were ecstatic. De Berry is director of the University’s School Desegregation Training and Research Institute. Ben Stewart, leader of the Black Student Union at San Jose (Cal.) State College, told white people to die and denounced them all as practicers of a particular form of incest. The students giggled delightedly. When Mr. Bozell and Jay Parker, a black member of Young Americans for Freedom, attempted to present their views, the students left the hall.