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Morse came out of last May's Democratic primary in bad shape. He defeated his hawkish opponent, former Congressman Robert B. Duncan, but only by a razor-thin margin. His vote, less than 50 per cent of the total, was the poorest showing of his political career: even in his most difficult early days, as a Republican Senator who was too liberal for the old guard in his party, Morse never encountered so much opposition...
...incantations of New Left and New Right extremists echo the irrational chants of sinister shamans. No one has ever been hurt by tossing salt over his left shoulder; many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity and those that enhance it. If he succeeds, the rest of the world will not have to keep its fingers crossed...
...cult of objects, Samaras has never become as famous as the pop artists with whom he first exhibited. If Claes Oldenburg or Tom Wesselmann turned out a strawberry sundae, it looked good enough to eat. Samaras filled his sherbet glass with nails and topped it off with a razor. Such cutting satire made it impossible for dealers to promote him as part of the bland pop school. But this year dealers are pushing the school of no-school. The premium is on artists whose versatility makes them impossible to be pigeonholed. Samaras neatly fills that bill. Says...
...cuff tirade before the Young Republicans in York, Pa., he did an about-face and said that the whole business, together with campus revolts, had been largely inspired by Communists and "fellow travelers." The Marylander confided that he had heard "through channels" that demonstrators in Chicago had inserted razor blades in their shoes to kick the cops. All that the "hippies and yippies" can do, he said, is "lay down in a park and kick policemen with razor blades." In fact, not even the Chicago police claim that their men were kicked with blades. And, of course, there was simply...
...police headquarters, the city displayed what it called a "sophisticated" array of weapons used by the demonstrators. It included a pingpong ball studded with nails, a jar containing two black-widow spiders, bricks, broken bottles and a razor blade. About 100 such weapons were exhibited-hardly an overwhelming arsenal for 10,000 "terrorists." The principal flaw in the Daley report is that while concentrating on the admitted provocations to police by many of the youths, it virtually ignores the savagery of police in attacking demonstrators, newsmen and onlookers alike. The most that Daley would concede is that "some innocent bystanders...