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...vote for Wallace in an effort to embarrass the Johnson Administration. But Wisconsin's Reynolds knew better. Said he in a postprimary statement: "All that Mr. Wallace has demonstrated is what we've known all along. We have a lot of people who are prejudiced." Politically inept as that remark may have been, Reynolds had a point. The real issue in the primary was civil rights. Wallace had entered the Wisconsin primary to demonstrate that many Northern, as well as Southern, whites are unhappy about current civil rights trends. And he demonstrated just that -dramatically...
Post-Season Prime. The fastest, roughest basketball of all comes in the post-season games of the N.I.T. and N.C.A.A. championships, whose finals were played off last week. When perennially inept New Mexico suddenly got ept this year and landed in the N.I.T., Albuquerque kicked in $6,000 for a special single-city telecast of its heroes. The New Mexico team smothered N.Y.U., but lost ignominiously (54-86) to the Bradley Braves...
With its crude, inept dramaturgy, The Deputy is no service to playwriting, and as a polemic, it might have been a far finer spur to conscience. Hochhuth affects to attack Pius XII for lacking the power of faith but really attacks him for lacking faith in power...
...game itself should be pretty dull, since the Indians have an astonishingly inept basketball team. Dartmouth has won two of 24 games, and is still winless in Ivy play...
...Crimson basketball team whipped woefully inept Brown last night, 73 to 59, but Harvard's lacklustre performance may bode ill for tonight's game with Yale...