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...Recent polls give Humphrey a slight lead in Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri. But most of the polls show him trailing Nixon. In state after state, the Humphrey machine is in disrepair, or nonexistent. In Texas, Humphrey does not even have a campaign manager. The New York situation is so chaotic that Humphrey operatives are bypassing the state organization to set up an independent-citizens' committee. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh is serving as honorary co-chairman of the Humphrey campaign, but amazingly enough, is also endorsing a write-in effort in behalf of McCarthy. The effort is sponsored...
...belief that Negroes are basically indolent and immoral, that law enforcement in the U.S. has broken down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting in a few of the riots, particularly Newark and Detroit, killed innocent citizens is forgotten, and the fact that police gunfire can prolong and worsen the initial disturbance is often overlooked...
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. In a chaotic but painfully fascinating self-analysis, a leading playwright of the Theater of the Absurd discusses the neurotic roots...
...worked effectively in the hostile atmosphere-would be quietly transferred. McCoy, however, was unable to restrain the more militant blacks in the community. And Shanker used the breakdown of the agreement as an excuse to try to make his union the dominant power in the city's increasingly chaotic school system...
...rebel students of Paris are threatening to take to the barricades again when their classes reconvene in November. Nonetheless, there is rising hope throughout France that relative peace may prevail in its chaotic university system. The optimism rests mainly on the promises and proficiency of Charles de Gaulle's agile new Minister of Education, Edgar Faure...