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...caromed out of the long and expensive primary spring, the slightly dazed Democratic Party found itself confronting something close to a fait accompli. Hubert Humphrey, far behind with 324½ delegates, vowed to fight on, in fading hopes that the convention arithmetic might still be changed. Maine's Edmund Muskie, an inactive candidate, late last week declined to take himself out of the race and free his 172 delegates...
...WHEN EDMUND WILSON received his B.A. from Princeton in 1916, he graduated into a world of disillusionment and eventual despair. His was the generation--in the words of his classmate and friend Scott Fitzgerald--that "had grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken". It was a generation not unlike...
Today's graduates might well envy such a spirit. Wilson knew the temptations of despair but he resolutely shunned them. Edmund Wilson's death must sadden us for it closes a chapter in our national cultural history that he himself helped write; but it also reinforces our own sense of purpose by throwing into relief a life of quiet heroism and insatiable curiosity...
...EDMUND A. BOJARSKI...
...over with," says Mrs. Wilma ("Billie") Renner, a Lawrenceburg, Ind., housewife and a Republican. "We're being pushed around overseas and at home. I'm disgusted with people not backing President Nixon." Walter Glamp, a Dublin, Md., high school counselor who voted for Edmund Muskie in his state's primary, feels that the President's advisers would have voted against the mining action if they thought it was unduly risky. "I believe," he says, "that the North Vietnamese now will watch their step before taking any escalatory actions of their...