The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis - How different Americans are, especially during a very dry summer. In Spain, when Chief of State Generalissimo Francisco Franco came down with phlebitis he gladly passed the reins of government to a...
...In the enlightened People's Republic of China, when July 17th rolled around, the Chinese commemorated Mao Tse-tung's famed Yangtse swim with a wangdoodle of a celebration, sharing many funny anecdotes about Chairman Mao's goofball life and drinking potions...
...Singing sensation Mr...
...It was a summer that visited much foul luck on many homes...
...This time the young cofounder of the Black Panther party was arrested at a very tony Oakland night spot when he punched a cruising vice patrolman who refused the generous Mr...
...In Spain, when Chief of State Generalissimo Francisco Franco came down with phlebitis he gladly passed the reins of government to a successor...
...In handing down its decision on July 24th the Court drew limits on confidentiality of White House files and recognized for the first time the constitutional basis for executive privilege...
...Such was the spirit that made this country great...
...The Sweat Barons have turned a deaf ear to the demands of the players who depict their situation as not dissimilar to that of yesteryear's indentured servants...
...A more decorous atmosphere surrounded Tokyo's grand opening of "Dog Beauty," a restaurant catering solely to dogs...
...And in Rochester, New York, a wrecking crew with the wrong address destroyed the home of Mr...
...John Ehrlichman is appealing his conviction for the role he allegedly played in the conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Doctor Lewis Fielding, an obscure Beverly Hills shrink...
...Even worse news came from an American hospital where a remarkable greenleaf grasshopper who had crawled into the ear of violinist Irving Rosen, during the Philadelphia Orchestra's performance of Petrushka, was summarily executed by a brutal ear, nose, and throat specialist...
...Artimus Washington (no relation to the former president) and Miss Melody Sutton had another disagreement over the score of a Chicago Cubs baseball game, and, as Miss Sutton reached for her .38, Mr...
...Nixon had lied about his knowledge of and his role in the Watergate coverup...
...Consequently, Mr...
...But nature lovers in lovely Malaysia despaired when government authorities placed a bounty on the exotic North Sumatran rat, and one million of the elegant creatures succumbed within a month...
...An abortive coup in Cyprus led to the downfall of the infamous Greek junto and the return to Greece of democracy and Miss Melina Mercouri...
...Glad tidings for nature lovers came from West Bengal, where wild life has become positively affluent...
...Unfortunately, several days later she expired...
...Rodriguez suffered two broken legs, various broken bones, a punctured lung, an enormous medical bill, and the loss of considerable esteem among his colleagues at the Oakland Sanitary Department...
...It went no better for Miss Mama Cass Elliott...
...Americans forget so quickly...
...Michael Robuck of Riverside, California was attempting to keep the wolf from his family's door when disaster struck...
...After loading the audacious young breadwinner into their car, members of the family sped off to a hospital only to be apprehended in a speed trap...
...He began the summer by traveling thither and yon on behalf of peace, but eventually had to return to Washington where the Supreme Court was hard at work on Richard M. Nixon v. United States...
...Newton's offer of free drinks...
...Pithily he asserted that such reports were "an affront to my professionalism and skill...
...HOW DIFFERENT Americans are, especially during a very dry summer...
...Mr...
...I was picked up an hour later and a mile away...
...The blossoming, economy of Mitchell, Indiana, whose main industry is school buses, began to wilt in July when the Supreme Court decided that busing to achieve racial balance could not be extended beyond city limits...
...and Mrs...
...And in Sarasota, Florida, a progressive television station is experimenting with an exciting and useful new talk-show format...
...While in London the 238-pound warbler and former flower child suffered the misfortune of having a fatal heart attack while solitarily munching a ham sandwich, a contretemps that gave rise to many boorish jokes regarding her controversial girth and her unscheduled departure...
...Mildred Benschaff of Wadsworth, Ohio insists her brown bantam hen, Little Brownie, has passed its nineteenth year...
...While robbing a supermarket he cut his foot on some glass...
...After taking $61.60 and binding clerk Miss- Wanda Roberts into a tight little ball, he shot himself in the paw...
...I wish this article rectified and the true story told...
...Nixon's path the House Judiciary Committee voted out three articles of impeachment against him, setting the stage for an August 19th impeachment debate, a performance that was never to be, for by August 5th those sixty-four tapes revealed that Mr...
...At this writing the players' strike continues, though their condition is becoming desperate...
...Otto Kerner, the former Federal Judge and Governor of Illinois began a three-year prison term on July 29th and former Secretary of the Treasury John Connally was indicted on July 31st by a Watergate Jury on charges of having accepted a bribe, committing perjury, and conspiring to obstruct justice...
...John W. Dean III was sentenced to from one to four years for his part in the Watergate Infamy, and Mr...
...In Chicago, Mr...
...And though the average age of a laying hen is only about two years, Mrs...
...Civil rights leader Huey Newton continues to be persecuted for his beliefs...
...But all this was as nothing compared to the ill luck that continued to dog Mr...
...Petersen was visiting neighbors...
...The compassion of many college students is being awakened despite the fact that a majority of Americans see the players as ingrates and swindlers...
...Just as this black cat had crossed Mr...
...The drug store is next to the North Providence police station," he added proudly, "so technically I should have been caught on the spot...
...D. R. Evans issued an indignant clarifying statement from his maximum security cell...
...Patrons can dine either at the traditional floor bowl or at tastefully appointed tables...
...The political future of Puerto Rico was cast into dubiety when Miss Jane Fonda promised to take up the cause of Puerto Rican independence...
...It was not until August 5th that London officials exculpated her sandwich and confirmed her coronary—but by then the damage was done...
...Nixon had to deliver sixty-four tapes to Judge John J. Sirica for use in the criminal trial of Mr...
...Nixon's former Assistant Presidents...
...And then there is the specter of the NFL players' strike that has haunted the sports world through much of the summer...
...Indeed, so much so that five persons were killed and twelve others injured when a roisterous herd of drunken elephants departed a local moonshine still...
...In America, July 18th slipped away unadorned as hardly a soul paused to observe the fifth anniversary of Senator Teddy Kennedy's extraordinary Chappaquiddick swim...
...In America, when President Nixon was felled by the same malady in the Middle East, the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach him...
...On August 9th he pled not guilty...
...Washington shot her seven times...
...Yet some Americans thankfully still take an old fashioned pride in their work, and when Rhode Island newspapers erroneously reported that he had been arrested "on the spot" during a drug store break-in, professional burglar Mr...
...On July 15th talk-show host Miss Christine Chubbuck announced to her audience that she had a "first" for them and promptly blasted a thirty-eight-caliber bullet into her skull...
...Undaunted, he made an efficient escape, but once at home his lavish bleeding alarmed his family...
...Sven Petersen while Mrs...
...Young Mr...
...Jesus Rodriguez encountered the same species of luck when he leaped from the Golden Gate Bridge, only to be embraced by gusting winds and smashed like a gnat into one of the many hard and uncomfortable abutments that support that famous health hazard...
...By August 8th the man who was at once one of the greatest and the most typical of the great presidents of this century had resigned, and the tragedy of it is that there is no indication that Washington's more adroit liars will emulate his behavior...
...Miss Sutton, who is 78, is recovering slowly...
...Richard Nixon, politician and erstwhile electronics buff, whose job security was eliminated by that myserious wave of puritanism now sweeping the very same city that made millionaires of the likes of Lyndon Johnson, Billie Sol Estes, Bobby Baker, and so many other public servants...
...On August 9th Vice President Gerald Ford became President, and Americans had finally put the 1960s behind them...
Vol. 8 • October 1974 • No. 1
