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...Originally published on restroom walls, only sinct 1967 has i1 dome under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it monthly Octobeq through June...
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...Seko announced that "Foreigners should know that from today onward there are no more pygmies in Zaire . . . . " But Mr...
...Seko relieved international apprehensions in a clarifying statement, noting that by ~no more pygmies" he merely meant that the erstwhile pygmies are now to be called Batswanese...
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...9 America's moral decline continues unabated...
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...Increased fuel prices and lowered speed limits prompted unruly behavior from truckers across the nation, as the Administration suggested still more humorous nostrums for the energy crisis...
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...But by the month's end, that crisis was mollified by the surprising news that the govermnent had exaggerated shortages and by the unsurprising news that the Arabs had forgotten that Hawaii was part of the United States and so had continued to ship oil to that astonishingly thirsty isle...
...And speaking of Atustralia, sixteen strippers from Sydney's Kings Cross district have gone on strike and refuse to exuviate until work conditions are improved...
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...The Supreme Court decided that police can search those they arrest so long as the arrest is lawful and the suspect is ultimately booked...
...Algene Choate is suing the school board for forcing his son "to eat a sandwich with an abnormally large amount of mustard on it...
...Mordecai Swell survived an extended ordeal in one of the world's largest commercial popcorn poppers...
...9 December, the month in which Christ's birth is commemorated, was also the month in which Representative Gerald R. Ford was raised to the vice-presidency, a position he actually seems to have yearned for...
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...9 Once again glad tidings arrive from Zaire where President Mobuto Sese Seko boosted that progressive republic's civil rights movement by decreeing that Batswa tribesmen (internationally known as Pygmies) are now free to serve in the armed forces...
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...Nevertheless a mob of Swedish idealists protested the presentation of onehalf of the Nobel Peace PriT~ to Mr...
...Not only did they down prodigious quantities, but they outguzzled a large contingent from the Australian Army...
...9 Senator William Proxmire, Wisconsin's twice-mugged Senator, suffered disaster when he slipped on ice while jogging to work...
...Engines of free enterprise fired up in lovely Kuala Lumpur where a bounty was put on rats--local specialists in the healing professions had been mixing the critters into their valued elixirs...
...the month tensions were easing in the Middle East, though Mohammed Touni, that Libyan skyjacker who took a I~banese airliner to Israel in August '~to show that not all Arabs hate the Jews" was immured in a Tel Aviv mental hospital...
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...Late in tile month as~or~ed sheiks and Abduls gathered to announce still more exorbitant prices for oil and the continuation of the oil boycott against the United States and others who do not share their foreign policy aspirations...
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...Bernice Flunton Bombfelter picketed the Marshall Field department store for having a male Santa Claus...
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...9 Having spent nearly seventeen years defusing him, authorities finally released Mr...
...William Dobrovir, acbnitted to having played one of the Vv~hite House t a p e s - o n e that Nader had gotten by suhpoena--a~ a Georgetown cocktail par~,y...
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...Secretary of State Kissinger spent most of the month in the air and the rest dulcifying Arabs and Israelis...
...The flavor of the affair was embalmed for all history in the Vice President's stunning address which began, '~I am a Ford not a L i n c o l n . . . " and climbed anon to even more grandiose heights...
...Johnnie Lee Fegion, 100, is leaving her one-hundred-three-year-old husband because "he spends all his time and money on other women...
...But he did get them to their Geneva peace talks, and by the end of the month prospects for peace in the area were better...
...But as to who planned the gaudy Capitol Hill ceremony wherein he was anointed, no one is saying, though there were hints that an anonymous dignitary from one of the various central African democracies had a hand in it...
...As Zaire comprises most of what was once called the Belgian Congo, there was some alarm at the United Nations when ~Mr...
...9 The extraordinary assembly abounded with solons, justices, famous faces from the media, and the President himself...
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...Guru Maharaj Ji was charged with smuggling $46 worth of jewelry, watches, and currency into India, and...
...Even more suggestive news came from the Treasury Department which seized one million dollars of contraband bull semen from an American who had smuggled the hot stuff from Canada...
...9 Patriots and votaries of high culture alike are still saluting the Cleveland Orchestra for breaking an airline beer-wineliquor consumption record on a flight from Honolulu to New Zealand...
Vol. 7 • February 1974 • No. 5
