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Dr. Wedge, the eminent psychiatrist, was retained by the Kennedy Administration to analyze the mind of Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy had Wedge’s findings in hand when he met with, and was bowled over by, Khrushchev in Vienna, in 1961. Now, the principals having left the scene, along comes Dr. Wedge to explain that his findings had been pretty damned exact right along the line, with one exception. “I suggested,” says Wedge of K, “that he was open, not capable of concealment. Since then we have learned a great deal more about the Soviet system and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev.” And have we learned a lot more about head shrinkers.

Let’s face it. What with George Wallace doing so handsomely among trade union members, who have voted overwhelmingly Democratic in every Presidential election since 1932, it’s a sticky wicket trying to slam Wallace and not insult the goodly union crew. Here’s how Tom Wicker of the New York Times solved the problem (Sept. 5): “A lot of nominal Democrats—union members, for one example—will vote for Wallace.” Thirty years the unions have belonged to the Democratic Party, and now, after just one little transgression, they’re only nominal Democrats.

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Dr. Wedge, the eminent psychiatrist, was retained by the Kennedy Administration to analyze the mind of Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy had Wedge’s findings in hand when he met with, and was bowled over by, Khrushchev in Vienna, in 1961. Now, the principals having left the scene, along comes Dr. Wedge to explain that his findings had been pretty damned exact right along the line, with one exception. “I suggested,” says Wedge of K, “that he was open, not capable of concealment. Since then we have learned a great deal more about the Soviet system and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev.” And have we learned a lot more about head shrinkers.

Let’s face it. What with George Wallace doing so handsomely among trade union members, who have voted overwhelmingly Democratic in every Presidential election since 1932, it’s a sticky wicket trying to slam Wallace and not insult the goodly union crew. Here’s how Tom Wicker of the New York Times solved the problem (Sept. 5): “A lot of nominal Democrats—union members, for one example—will vote for Wallace.” Thirty years the unions have belonged to the Democratic Party, and now, after just one little transgression, they’re only nominal Democrats.