The Week

• We go to press as the report that the President will be operated on appears under the banner headline of every newspaper. We wish him well, and pray that his return to full health and vigor will be speedy. We reflect, too, on how the global repercussions instantly set in motion by this news of what is, after all, rather routine surgery for a man in his fifties, indicate the distance our once sternly Republican regime has traveled along the road to Caesarism.

• The dust on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, far from having settled since last year’s storm, is seething and whirling into what may become a real tornado before the school year is out. The revolutionaries in faculty and student body are boldly advancing in what can only be interpreted as a serious attempt to take control of the institution; and no one is standing firm against them. “Lyndon Johnson: Wanted for Murder in Vietnam!” shriek the posters on Sproul Plaza as petitions are circulating pledging signers to refuse to be drafted. “We were able to withstand one year of this,” Messrs. Evans and Novak quote a wearied professor as saying. “No university can go through another year of this agitation and survive.”

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• We go to press as the report that the President will be operated on appears under the banner headline of every newspaper. We wish him well, and pray that his return to full health and vigor will be speedy. We reflect, too, on how the global repercussions instantly set in motion by this news of what is, after all, rather routine surgery for a man in his fifties, indicate the distance our once sternly Republican regime has traveled along the road to Caesarism.

• The dust on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, far from having settled since last year’s storm, is seething and whirling into what may become a real tornado before the school year is out. The revolutionaries in faculty and student body are boldly advancing in what can only be interpreted as a serious attempt to take control of the institution; and no one is standing firm against them. “Lyndon Johnson: Wanted for Murder in Vietnam!” shriek the posters on Sproul Plaza as petitions are circulating pledging signers to refuse to be drafted. “We were able to withstand one year of this,” Messrs. Evans and Novak quote a wearied professor as saying. “No university can go through another year of this agitation and survive.”