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The WEEK @ On the scene of some of the most bitter fighting, an imposing 250-foot statue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad has just been > dedicated—at Volgograd. e William Sloane Coffin the Last (we can only hope) has. now divulged that he is considering advising © those students at Yale who in their desperation still turn to him for advice, that they should consider returning their draft cards to their local boards. The Reverend’s thoughts do not even have the bracing feel of the pure, and somehow purifying, passion of young whatshisname who burned his draft card a while ago and went off to jail. They won’t send the Reverend to jail, whence he would make a most fear- some noise. And anyway, the Reverend is a coony -idealist, who knows that the Supreme Court could probably be paralyzed forever in arguments between a malum prohibitum (returning the draft card) and a malum in se (destroying a draft record). Still, there is mischief there aplenty, and not the least off- putting aspect of it was singled out by a bright stu-. dent among those to whom the Reverend divulged this newest thought, namely that “it’s all very well to advise students to return their draft cards. Dr. Coffin’s career doesn’t stand to be hurt by giving the — advice. Only the careers of the students who take it.” ® Credit the Grunt Society with giving Republicans a good chance to break the Democratic lock on Ken- tucky’s statehouse. The gubernatorial election is No- vember 7, and the GOP candidate, conservative lawyer Louie Nunn, is closing fast on his Democratic opponent, Henry Ward. Registration in Kentucky is three to one Democratic, and in most years Ward’s primary victory would have guaranteed his election. This time, Ward is finding the party garland some- thing of a noose. He has asked for and received no endorsements from national leaders (personae non gratae), while Nunn has profited greatly from sup- port by GOP notables. The biggest splash of all was made by one Ronald Reagan, who told 12,500 cheer- ing Kentuckians October 14 that electing Nunn would be a fine way to kick off a national repudiation of LBJ’s “security-of-the-antheap” politics next year. @ The gun-conscious New York legislature hasn’t made any headway against criminals, so they’ve struck out at the next most dangerous element in so- ciety, the circus. New York now has a new law mak-

_ trouble.” ing it a misdemeanor to shoot a person from a cannon or to furnish premises for such a performance. Also outlawed in the revised Penal Code are exhibitions in which balls, knives, or other objects are thrown at human targets. Nowadays, if you want to be shot out of a cannon, you have to go to New Jersey, or Connecticut. Where a lot of people are landing in any case, hot from the muzzle of Fun City. @

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The WEEK @ On the scene of some of the most bitter fighting, an imposing 250-foot statue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad has just been > dedicated—at Volgograd. e William Sloane Coffin the Last (we can only hope) has. now divulged that he is considering advising © those students at Yale who in their desperation still turn to him for advice, that they should consider returning their draft cards to their local boards. The Reverend’s thoughts do not even have the bracing feel of the pure, and somehow purifying, passion of young whatshisname who burned his draft card a while ago and went off to jail. They won’t send the Reverend to jail, whence he would make a most fear- some noise. And anyway, the Reverend is a coony -idealist, who knows that the Supreme Court could probably be paralyzed forever in arguments between a malum prohibitum (returning the draft card) and a malum in se (destroying a draft record). Still, there is mischief there aplenty, and not the least off- putting aspect of it was singled out by a bright stu-. dent among those to whom the Reverend divulged this newest thought, namely that “it’s all very well to advise students to return their draft cards. Dr. Coffin’s career doesn’t stand to be hurt by giving the — advice. Only the careers of the students who take it.” ® Credit the Grunt Society with giving Republicans a good chance to break the Democratic lock on Ken- tucky’s statehouse. The gubernatorial election is No- vember 7, and the GOP candidate, conservative lawyer Louie Nunn, is closing fast on his Democratic opponent, Henry Ward. Registration in Kentucky is three to one Democratic, and in most years Ward’s primary victory would have guaranteed his election. This time, Ward is finding the party garland some- thing of a noose. He has asked for and received no endorsements from national leaders (personae non gratae), while Nunn has profited greatly from sup- port by GOP notables. The biggest splash of all was made by one Ronald Reagan, who told 12,500 cheer- ing Kentuckians October 14 that electing Nunn would be a fine way to kick off a national repudiation of LBJ’s “security-of-the-antheap” politics next year. @ The gun-conscious New York legislature hasn’t made any headway against criminals, so they’ve struck out at the next most dangerous element in so- ciety, the circus. New York now has a new law mak-

_ trouble.” ing it a misdemeanor to shoot a person from a cannon or to furnish premises for such a performance. Also outlawed in the revised Penal Code are exhibitions in which balls, knives, or other objects are thrown at human targets. Nowadays, if you want to be shot out of a cannon, you have to go to New Jersey, or Connecticut. Where a lot of people are landing in any case, hot from the muzzle of Fun City. @