Abstract

Editorials

This article discusses various political issues. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's may have won him a handful of new friends, but it has certainly cost him a whole lot of old ones. The President is furthering the split in his party, and the New Republicans, whether they like it or not, are increasingly-and embarrassingly-finding, themselves practically indistinguishable from New Dealers. The new budget may not have created a balanced economy, but it has taken the country another step toward establishing a new balance in the political scene. George Metesky, the resentful bomber whose modest charm is rapidly making him a hero to New Yorkers he has terrorized off and on for sixteen years, will be indicted, should he prove sane, on two main charges. The first of these is felonious assault or the injury of a person and carries a maximum sentence of ten years, the second, malicious mischief or the damaging of property, makes him liable to a prison term of twenty-five years. Ralph Barton Perry, who died last week at the age of 80, was one of the most stalwart liberals on the American philosophical scene in the past half century.