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■ Good question, from an unlikely source (the Militant, newspaper of the Trotskyite Young Socialist Alliance): If the Catholic church allows its priests to get married, what will it do when its married priests want to get divorced?

■ Anyone here seen Arthur Goldberg? They saw him at two news conferences, one in December and one in February. And at both he said: “I have decided against being a candidate either for governor or senator in the 1970 New York elections. This decision is final and not subject to change.” But he didn’t say “positively.” (Remember how John Lindsay said they’d raise subway fares only over his “dead body”? The rumor is that he’s still walking around.) Anyhow, they saw Goldberg again, in March, this time up at Columbia, where he sounded like nothing else in the world more than a gubernatorial candidate panting to be asked. Poor Rocky. He’d just as soon not see the politically potent Goldberg, especially at a time when the Democrats are fielding five other aspiring candidates whose names no one can ever quite remember. And it all must sort of remind him of his own on-again, off-again ’68 Presidential performance. But still, it must be kind of fun for him to watch the Democrats cut one another up. Especially if it ends with some candidate visible other than Goldberg.

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■ Good question, from an unlikely source (the Militant, newspaper of the Trotskyite Young Socialist Alliance): If the Catholic church allows its priests to get married, what will it do when its married priests want to get divorced?

■ Anyone here seen Arthur Goldberg? They saw him at two news conferences, one in December and one in February. And at both he said: “I have decided against being a candidate either for governor or senator in the 1970 New York elections. This decision is final and not subject to change.” But he didn’t say “positively.” (Remember how John Lindsay said they’d raise subway fares only over his “dead body”? The rumor is that he’s still walking around.) Anyhow, they saw Goldberg again, in March, this time up at Columbia, where he sounded like nothing else in the world more than a gubernatorial candidate panting to be asked. Poor Rocky. He’d just as soon not see the politically potent Goldberg, especially at a time when the Democrats are fielding five other aspiring candidates whose names no one can ever quite remember. And it all must sort of remind him of his own on-again, off-again ’68 Presidential performance. But still, it must be kind of fun for him to watch the Democrats cut one another up. Especially if it ends with some candidate visible other than Goldberg.