ARMAMENTS: In McRompers' Steps

Visionary young Milton McRompers, the Boy Senator, had a brave idea—to force every candidate for public office to have his head examined. But after three weeks under the fiendish McRompers law, the U.S. had had enough. Washington went wild over repeal and the joyous headline: "Government officials no longer to be selected on basis of brains and integrity." Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), who had dreamed up the episode in his Sunday comic strip, turned his fertile mind to other things.

But last week the spirit of McRompers still marched on. At the...

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