The Week

• Shortly after the Rev. Reeb was killed in Alabama, the New York World-Telegram and Sun opened its columns to a public solicitation of funds for Reeb’s family. At about the same time, young Andrew Mormile was stabbed to death in a New York City subway. Assuming that charity begins at home, Mr. Nathan Goldberg, Principal of PS 42 in the Bronx, sent $5 to the World-Telegram, hoping to start a fund for the Mormile family. His $5 was returned to him by the editor, Mr. Richard Peters, who agreed that the subway to Brooklyn can be as dangerous as the road to Birmingham, but urged Mr. Goldberg to write a letter to City Hall and dontrocktheboat-dammit.

• You are the President of All the People. You have a date, ten days from now, with President Ayub Khan of Pakistan. You have a date, five weeks from now, with Prime Minister Shastri of India. Khan and Shastri hate each other’s guts, and are tossing spears and stones at each other out in the boondocks. Khan, sassing the U.S., has been turning more and more to Red China, his enemy’s enemy. Shastri, deprived of leftward ground to move towards, gets his kicks raising the decibels of his gripes about the U.S. So you send the lads a note saying Khan and Shastri won’t come to the U.S. until a little later. Shastri and Khan hit the roof. Tomorrow the embassies will be stoned. But the day after tomorrow Shastri and Khan will maybe pause a moment or two between their routine provocations of the U.S. Good show.

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• Shortly after the Rev. Reeb was killed in Alabama, the New York World-Telegram and Sun opened its columns to a public solicitation of funds for Reeb’s family. At about the same time, young Andrew Mormile was stabbed to death in a New York City subway. Assuming that charity begins at home, Mr. Nathan Goldberg, Principal of PS 42 in the Bronx, sent $5 to the World-Telegram, hoping to start a fund for the Mormile family. His $5 was returned to him by the editor, Mr. Richard Peters, who agreed that the subway to Brooklyn can be as dangerous as the road to Birmingham, but urged Mr. Goldberg to write a letter to City Hall and dontrocktheboat-dammit.

• You are the President of All the People. You have a date, ten days from now, with President Ayub Khan of Pakistan. You have a date, five weeks from now, with Prime Minister Shastri of India. Khan and Shastri hate each other’s guts, and are tossing spears and stones at each other out in the boondocks. Khan, sassing the U.S., has been turning more and more to Red China, his enemy’s enemy. Shastri, deprived of leftward ground to move towards, gets his kicks raising the decibels of his gripes about the U.S. So you send the lads a note saying Khan and Shastri won’t come to the U.S. until a little later. Shastri and Khan hit the roof. Tomorrow the embassies will be stoned. But the day after tomorrow Shastri and Khan will maybe pause a moment or two between their routine provocations of the U.S. Good show.