The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis Those "linguistic problems" that kept a Vietnamese settlement from Mr. Kissinger's hand just before the election persisted throughout November. On November 2 a band of...
...Senator McGovern's supporters slept behind locked doors expecting a "call in the night...
...An irate client bit Mr...
...It is the Year of the Running Back...
...American tourists were cheered when they heard that in Italy one in every ten young women is a prostitute...
...George Romney left HUD, and in Brazil a shantytown was buried under an avalanche of garbage from the city dump...
...o Though the press hardly noted it, peace groups scheduled their annual demonstrations for an immediate cul mination of the war on November 18...
...On November 17 Argentina cele brated the second coming of Juan Peron...
...The Miami Dolphins continued their unbeaten string...
...Jean Westwood, the fortyeight year-old mink farmer, chosen by Senator McGovern to be Democratic National Chairman, may be given an early retirement...
...no ambrosia for the ideologues and the fabulists...
...Nixon won 60.83 percent of the popular vote and 521 electoral votes in the presidential shout ing match...
...Sidney Krieger on the proboscis while he worked in his Gary, Indiana office...
...On November 2 a band of excited Indians led by three ex-convicts captured the Bureau of Indian Affairs, caused over two million dollars of damage, made ten thousand dollars worth of long distance calls, and stole two rugs...
...The crowds were small but serious and high minded, many were beautifully dressed...
...And radio station KYXI of Milwaukee interrupted its early morning broadcast while disc jockey David Roberts hanged himself...
...Two student demonstrators died of gun shot wounds at Southern University ig niting small demonstrations throughout the country...
...Back in the States people talked of "Nixon Prosperity," and in the middle of the month the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 1000 for the first time in history...
...The Society of American Magicians celebrated the forty-sixth anniversary of the death of Harry Houdini...
...At the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley one protestor ate a live chicken and spread the feathers in front of an army recruiting office...
...And Honduras' General Oswaldo Lopez Arellano established a Pan American record by completing a bloodless coup so rapidly that it caused an "only brief interruption in international telephone service...
...In politics one hundred beautifully dressed homosexuals demonstrated in New York against police abuses...
...Senator McGovern was the last to concede...
...Howard Hughes, Representative Boggs, and Representative Begich are still missing...
...A United States Court of Appeals removed contempt charges from the heads of the remaining Chicago Seven...
...The Exorcism of Amerika was de layed four years when Mr...
...The fate of the remaining eighteen million was not revealed, nevertheless on November East and West Germany initialed a treaty designed to "normalize" rela tions...
...The President spent much of his time in Camp David...
...And in Memphis the police are spreading a rumor that a homosexual has raped seventeen male students...
...about 100 masseuses demonstrated against governmental repression...
...James Earl Ray's pleas for a new trial were ignored...
...In such a climate of fear it comes as good news that a group calling itself the Citizens for Kennedy Committee has begun a drive for the 1976 Election of the Lion of Massachusetts...
...And the J.P...
...It was not an auspicious month for political prisoners...
...Nixon's popularity his party lost two seats in the Senate and only gained thirteen in the House...
...Setting a precedent that begs for emulation the Resurrected Whig Party was the first to concede, making their announcement even before the polls closed...
...Jane Fonda complains that there is a bleeping coming from her television set...
...It is the Year of the Running Back...
...In Los Gatos, California a sixty-eight year-old priest was stabbed to death while hearing confessions...
...The next day the German Democratic Republic an nounced plans to free some thirty thousand "political prisoners...
...Richard Speck was resentenced to 1,200 years imprisonment...
...Acanfora is a militant gay...
...On November 8 the modern Metternich, General Idi Amin, went to the Ugandan aerodrome to bid farewell to the last of the 50,000 lucky Asians he had ordered expelled from paradise...
...Timothy Leary was granted permission to remain "indefinite ly" in Switzerland...
...Martin Dies, and Dr...
...In Baltimore Joseph Acanfora III says he will take his battle to the courts rather than allow the Montgomery County Board of Education to shift him from his job as an eighth grade teacher of earth sciences...
...Morgan of crime, Meyer Lansky, was shipped to the United States...
...Martin Borman was found and lost...
...There will be no New Frontiers, no New American Revolutions, no ambrosia for the ideologues and the fabulists...
...While in Manila, where President Marcos has stated that he imposed martial law only after receiving instructions from God...
...Mrs...
...Despite Mr...
...Willy Brandt's coalition won a comfortable majority in the West German elections...
...All in all it was not much of a month...
...Ezra Pound died as did the Hon...
Vol. 6 • January 1973 • No. 4
