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Disaster & Disarray. The G.O.P.'s new direction and drive prompted a dire warning last week from one of the most articulate Democrats around. Address ing New York's Democratic Forum, former J.F.K. Speechwriter Ted Sorensen said that the 1966 election had plunged the Administration party into such "disaster and disarray" that Johnson's chances for re-election have been gravely "endangered." Sounding for all the world like an oldtime Tammany ward heeler, Sorensen bewailed the fact that "the unions can no longer deliver their members; their preachers can no longer deliver the Negroes; and the ward captains...
...Under U.S.-Soviet control." The ram paging Red Guards exhibit a fondness for harassing the few Russians remain ing in China, recently even jostled and insulted a Soviet Friendship Delegation visiting Peking. The Guards hurled such "vicious, provocative slogans against the Soviet Union," reported Delegation Leader Viktor Maevsky last week, that the Russians packed up and went home...
...Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went the 68-year-old ascetic who had served for the past 15 years in one Cabinet post or another...
...programmed to digest early returns and forecast winners at the earliest possible moment. At CBS, the setup was VPA (Vote Profile Analysis). NBC offered EVA (Electronic Vote Analysis); ABC produced RSVP (Research Selected Vote Profile). Like wire-service leg men still dedicated to the old-fashioned proposition that beat ing the opposition by a matter of minutes is a major victory, each network was determined to be first to call the winners. Fragmentary returns from key precincts were fed into the computers; comparisons were made with past voting patterns; projections of the uncounted votes were worked...
...hundred years ago, trade followed the gunboat. Now it follows the text book and the teacher. Instead of realiz ing this, so many publishers go in for an orgy of putrid books...