During election campaigns, U.S. newspapers often run a "battle page" on which they let both parties argue their respective cases. Last week the New York Herald Tribune found itself trapped into running a battle page that it had never planned. The Republican Trib announced that it would run a impart series on Page One as a "basic statement of the Administration's position at the start of the autumn campaign." Among the authors: Vice President Nixon, Attorney General Brownell, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. More than 100 other papers thought the series such a good idea that they bought it. But the first...
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