Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" AMERICAN LANGUAGE first make mad"-- Euripedes MOMENT OF TRUTH The intelligent response to a local editorial b y a high-grade product of the remarkable Indiana school systen~ To...
...Nothing," he replied...
...Each and every state he travels through the operator must secure permits and file quarterly reports so that each and every state can get its share of the operators money...
...advertises it...
...Yes, we make real good money and when the end of the year comes and you start figuring your time your damn lucky if you make a $1.00 an hour...
...8, 1973 under "Our Opinion...
...have lost some of their earlier sheen because of the long swing to the Right in American politics...
...you will be remembered as the flashiest dresser to serve as Vice President since Lyndon Johnson...
...Ve send 30 to 40 missions around the world yearly and we have not seen in recent years a situation so grave as that in Chile (not even Brazil or Greece)," Joe Nordmann, a French jurist, declared...
...Well, friend go to a truck stop and put in about 150 to 200 gallons of diesel fuel and the price has doubled...
...Now we come to the fuel prices...
...The Vice President's departure has left him with a sense of "deep personal loss...
...This figure is well in the $40,000.00 bracket, and on top of this he pays a high interest rate, pays this astronomical amount in the period of three to four years...
...President Ninon has done to this country in six months what Germany and Japan combined could not do in four years...
...Mel Ravitz said his resolution was prompted by...
...Nation GIBBERISH The postwar "swing" of American politics as seen by a clear-headed donkey, braying at the Nation: Of the remar~ble group that made up Roosevelt's Cabinet and advisers, Wallaco has come through most damaged in reputation...
...The independent owner operator PAYS MORE TAXES IN ONE YEAR THAN OLLR MOST HONORABLE PRESIDENT NIYxON HAS PAID IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS...
...On the '~Ellsberg burglary," McCartney says he suspects the President was aware of it and possibly ordered it but "can't point to any specific document or testimony...
...On what grounds...
...Robert Steinbrook, a sophomore from Amhers~ How were the President's actions in the I.T.T...
...case illegal, deceitful and hypocritical as charged in [his] editorial...
...Nation M END OF AN ERA Another assault on the First Amendmerit in the Nixon era: The president of the Detroit Common Council has introduced a resolution calling for an end to Polish jokes "and other forms of ethnic, racial and religious humor...
...No, we don't classify ourselves as a special class of Americans either...
...As for the Teamsters Union, their record for the past several years speaks for itself...
...Talking as a truck owner and operator and for many others as myself who live with this way of life...
...Better still, you stop here and get 10 to 20 gallons and drive and get another 10 to 20 and you spend more time looking for diesel fuel than you do driving...
...But there's the perjury before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the case, he tried again...
...When we asked Schlesinger's office whether he had really broken his hand on a youngster's backside, he refused to comment...
...Bloomington Courier Tribune The Alternative March 1974 29...
...interviewing still another of the gifted young students who have taken time from their busy schedules to r i d the Republic of Nixon, Dr...
...Lofton turns up a nascent George McGovern, Mr...
...New York Times October 13, 1973 INTERVIEWING GENIUSES Dr...
...You drive your car to the service station and put in 12 or 15 gallons of gas, and bey how you holler when they raise the price a couple of pennies...
...Your publication indeed expresses your opinion, what you lack in ignoranco you make up for in stupidity...
...Then of course, we have our so called Interstates that collect tolls and this is another ten to twelve cents a mile...
...As to the "milk deals," Steinbrook again refuses to go point by point through his editorial because "you're destroying me...
...John D. I.~fton, J r . , noted philosop h e r and humanist interviews one, Robert McCartney, a n enlightened and saucy college boy who is taking the lead in the drive to evaporate the h a t e d Nixon and who is eager to distribute the fruits of his intellech Expressing a "limited faith" in the courts to rule on the legality of the Cambodia bombing, McCartney says this is not as important as the fact that anyone doing such a thing should be "thrown out of ofrico...
...One day last spring, when Schlesinger was director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he came to work with his hand in a cast...
...Washington Post M LIGHTER SIDE One of those memorable flashes of jocosity that is forever livening up the Natiov~ a journal of political neurosis: The President, responsible for Agnew's rise and fall, was all shook up by Agnew's resignation...
...And what's illegal about that...
...M AMERICAN LANGUAGE f i r s t make mad"-- Euripedes MOMENT OF TRUTH The intelligent response to a local editorial b y a high-grade p r o d u c t of the remarkable Indiana school systen~ To the editor: I would like to express my feelings and thoughts to your editorial published Saturday, Dec...
...When I point out that the person allegedly perjuring himself was Kleindienst, not the President, and ask if the editorial wasn't calling for the impeachment of Nixon, not Kleindienst, Steinbrook replies: ~ a a t ' s right...
...I can't answer you at this time...
...I'll try and fill you in on this Golden Opportunity as T.V...
...If it wasn't for these shameful bully bey truck drivers yoa wouldn't have any interstates to ride on...
...He suggests we talk again later...
...The average independent owner operator purchases his tractor and trailer at the cost of what the Average American pays for two homes...
...I broke my hand while spanking one of my kids," replied the father of eight without a trace of a smile...
...Well, number one, said Steinbrook, the President asked Attorney General Kleindienst not to appeal the case...
...the recent publication of ' ~ n e official Polish Joke Book," and a resulting protest by the Polish American Folk Theater...
...P.S...
...All the major New Deal personalities---Hopkins, Ickes, Morgenthau, et al...
...Associated Press I n a world, bright with humanitarian regimes like those of Russia and China, the New York T/rues still does not fail to report the bad new~ Representatives of three international organizations committed to the defense of human rights declared today that in Chile those rights "are now being systematically violated through practice and legal text...
...So farewell to you, Spire...
...you spell Ni~zon like you spell Exxon...
...You've made a very good point...
...We won't mention the Federal Highway Use Tax each trucker pays, each and every year...
...His aides asked him what had happened...
...On the grounds that killing people just because you're President, without telling anyone, is a travesty of the democratic process...
...Let's get down to the pay scale...
...A closing thought from a World War II veteran...
...Bloomington Herald Telephone CRANK C~I Lq Intrepid reporter, Jack Anderson, shows how he mixes business with pleasure, operating out of a clandestine public phone booth in our nation's Capitol: Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger has such a dry, offbeat sense of humor that his associates cannot tell when he's kidding and when he's telling the truth...
Vol. 7 • March 1974 • No. 6
