The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS ý82 August passes, and those biithe spirits who were denied tl~e swell spectacle of another McOovern candidacy are beginning to perk up, for now there sprouts in...
...Meanwhile in Portsmouth, Virginia proud parents David and Beverly Webster beamed as their seventeen-year-old daughter was stripped and beaten during her initiation into the rites of witchcraft, a nonconformist religion for whose prat,tice Mr...
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...United States ? ý82 Fit~ally, N'-,rionai Pub}it Radio has unveiled another lunatic proposal for its gullible audience..According to a Mrg...
...tupcndous depth of lca,ier~hip ava:lable t~ .Americans when it g.a~e it...
...Felker has moved in with her sister...
...l'im Allen, had been arrested for selling marijua,m -- a dreadful misfortune surf to :tfl"t'r Mr...
...Baron Yon Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club...
...died of initzri~s suffered from what was repor, ed as "an dxtended session in a sat:ha...
...His limp maunderings are laced with the wisdom of Sister McPherson, Brother Bryan, Rod McKuen, and Dr...
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...The Uniied States Tennis Association found itself in an unprecedented pickle when the voluptuous Dr...
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...The possibility that their equal rights legislation will now force professional female athletes to compete with geldings does not please them...
...Plunkitt, Peter J. Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein, J. Whitney Stillman...
...82 At the height of his powers he is capable of the most blatant dissimulations: sermonizing against amnesty while endorsing pardons, sermonizing against racial bigotry after cosily cooperating with the country's worst bigots, sermonizing against special interests after amassing a fortune in one of the most highly subsidized agribusinesses in the country, a devout dove on record as a supporter o f the Vietnam war at least until 1971, a friend of Labor who swatted it at every turn during his gubernatorial years, the champion of Great Society programs who opposes Great Society costs...
...R. Emmett TyrreU, Jr...
...The ill-starred burglar could no longer keep his hiding.place a secret when seized by a claustrophobic fit...
...George Nathan...
...Tom Bethell 26 28 The Last European tVar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles R. Kesler 28 32 The Chronicles o f Bustos Domecq...
...From the Georgian boondocks he has risen--his pockets bulging with moon pies for the yokels, his sermons full of virtuous vapor for the intellectualoids...
...82 A sigh of relief issued from California's Fourth Congressional District when Democratic Rep...
...They have nominated what appears to be the political equivalent of a platypus, a shaggy varmint part McGovern, part Eleanor Roosevelt, part Nixon, and part Willie (the Actor) Sutton...
...Legal Counsel: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short...
...The hellish behavior took place at the rising town of Karaganda where corruption apparently spread throughout the community...
...Joseph P. Duggan...
...Two of the general's wives had to be hospitalized with facial lacerations, and one suffered a broken nose...
...Assorted Jackasses 40 41 Index for Volume Nine, 1975-76...
...But even good-humored horseplay can be hazardous...
...Jimmy Carter, arc you listening ? --RET 2 The Alternative: An American Spectator October 1976 THE ALTERNATIVE" AN AMERICAN SPECTATOR 5 Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea...
...He is the veriest of frauds...
...Adam Meyerson...
...Susan Sterl...
...the t~Jtagh-minded WeaO~k.tl~an indk:led with the Seattle 7 for a!l,:ge,ll...
...And Uganda's President _9 ldi Amin Dada continues to suffer from truly abomin2ble press relations...
...82 In Moscow, the newspaper Kom$omo/$~aya Pra~a~ reports a dispiriting tale of bourgeois decadence in a Soviet zoo where many animals starved while zoo keepers dined handsomely on the animals' provender...
...Ronald E. Burr...
...Webster wa~ s~cke.,t flora hi.~ I,,b as a disc iockey at a Iota...
...Elliott Banfield...
...He was nominated on the night of August 18, and within 24 hours he forged an awesome alliance between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Russell...
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...Amin's son names--an insult intolerable for any proud father...
...Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, was indicted on August 3 in Brooklyn for sellhag half.price tickets fur Paris-to-Washington flights...
...Second class postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana, and additional mailing offices...
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...Over one hundred vehement discourses were heard, most of them dyspeptic, self-serving, and fatuous...
...dieted the airline of the world's foremost socialist government fur engaging f/a&ras/o a~h'cto in free enterprise...
...Progress has struck at House Speaker Carl Albert's Oklahoma birthplace, which is changing its name to Flowery Mound from the original Bug Tussle...
...Late in August it was reported that'Ugandan troops killed five university students and wounded dozens more, but what was not reported very clearly was that the students had actually been calling Mr...
...Luigi Musso's ransacked apartment arrested Mr...
...Quirino del Medico, whom they found thrashing and moaning in Mr...
...aircraft weapons and then settled down to a late-night snack and a game of "pebbles," the diversion that has become so popular with upper-class Ugandans...
...On August 25 the battling solon from South Cottonwood, Utah was given a 30-day suspended sentence and assessed court costs for soliciting lewd acts from two police decoys...
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...The 42.year.old, six-fuot, two-inch ophthalmologist and part-time philatelist has caused grave unease within the liberationist movements, especially amongst feminists who had heretofore shown such gusto for coercing men's organizations to admit women...
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...Wayne Hays is leading a movement to clean up the United States House of Representatives...
...Adam Meyerson 24 26 Me andRalph...
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...82 Another romantic figure from the Ke,,ncdy year., has pas~.ed on...
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...34 38 Correspondence...
...A Symposium featuring R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Karl O'Lessker, and John R. Coyne, Jr...
...Seaior Editors: Terry Krieger, William Kristol, Rev...
...Her reasoning is subtle and intricate, but unless I have wildly miscalculated the NPR audience, our:Mrs, lngebar's ptoposal is the most popular heard there since Mr...
...lngebar of rhe great state of California, justice demands that housewives receive $13,000 per year from what she loosely refers to as "American business...
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...The blow- came iust hours after his campaign headquarters received word that the hapless manager of his campaign, Mr...
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...Grubbs, Jr., Anthony Harrigan, Neil Howe, Leslie Lenkowsky, Robert McTiernan, Judy Mathews, William H. Nolte, Karl O'Lessker, Terry O'Rourke, Marc F. Plattner, G.W...
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...Not only were zoo keepers eating exceptionally well, but they were paying off the town's director of culture by delivering to him what the newspaper termed "exotic refreshments," $876.28 worth of tropical fruits meant for the zoo's monkeys...
...Associates: David Brudnoy, Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr., John R. Coyne, Jr., Alan Reynolds...
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...and if he has his way, the 1976 presidential will be one extended soap opera starring Brother Carter, Yahweh, and the descendants of Flem Snopes...
...4 16 The Great American Saloon Series...
...tt~r "~ms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juliana G. Pilon 36 @@ a o~ q oq Q Qo @ I D o@ @ _9 6@ @ @ a @ @ q @ @ @ @ oQ Q Q B g ogD B _9 J@ ~g DI Q o@ Q@@@ o@ I ~OQ QODD @9 Oq@ OQO@@ O@@ @ a@@@@t Q UOOQ I 0 _9 080@ @ I@ @ @@ Qi @l _9 @ IQQ I Bgl DOI _9 DO O@ @OQQOOI ~@ OQa@a o QO@O 6 QOO@QI Editor in Chief: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
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...Joseph P. Duggan 8 1 l An Open Letter to Spiro Agnew--Wherever You Are...
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...16 30 The Nation's Pulse...
...The gentle side of Field Marshal Amin, family man, had shown itself earlier in the month when he took his brood on an outing to his Kampala command post...
...Rusthoven 30 34 Among the Intellectualoids...
...There his wives and children gaily entertained themselves by firing Soviet-made antitank and anti...
...William E. Simon 12 14 The Great American Birthday Party...
...James Ring Adams and Laurel Ann Adams 14 19 Bigotry in the Press: The Example of Newsweek...
...9 Not since Coolidge took on John W. Davis has America had two more exciting ca,ldidates !unging for the p.resiaent,y...
...Kansas before departing for the golf courses of Vail...
...Both he and fellow Democrat Rep...
...Robert Leggett, an admitted forger now under investigation for revealing classified information, solemnly declared that he broke off relations with a mistress by whom he had had two children and with whom he had clandestinely cohabitated fur over a decade "before she became really right-wing...
...Vic Gold 11 12 The Business of America is Honest Competition...
...splattering parer on Seattle's U.S...
...in brief a sempiternal liar, campaigning for moral reawakening...
...82 The esteemed nations of the Third World journeyed to progressive Sri Lanka for a weeklong diplomatic carnival...
...Roselli turned up ut;expeC:tedly in an oil drum on Biscayne Bay...
...Production Manager: Kenneth J. Gooderham...
...Kakuei Tanaka, the former prime minister of Japan, was jugged for allegedly accepting the generosity of the infamous Lockheed conspiracy...
...82 That mysterious conspiracy against the Rt...
...PeterJ...
...An Iraqi A'irways Boeing 747 with 390 passengers en route to Paris landed at the wrong Paris ~irport...
...Published remarkably witho,t regard to race, color, weed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin--and yes, sex, even sex...
...Allan Howe continues...
...but from the din emerged a new conception of world economics based on the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, featuring America as the ultimate source of the aforementioned miraculous viands...
...Lester Felker of Chicago celebrated his 53rd birthday by ceremoniously leading his wife's two Saint Bernards onto his front lawn and before an audience of horrified neighbors rhythmically butchering them to the accompaniment of a recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...J~Jhn Roselli, a h~rmcr ,olieague ol ~ the late Mr...
...presidential nom~narion to G~.vern,~r l.e.-.tcr M~ddox...
...Contn~utors: Robert Asahina, Aram Bakshian, Jr., A. Lawrence Chickering, Christopher DeMuth, Terry Easfland, Jerry Gerde, K.E...
...Renee--not often have these obnoxious sophists been forced to confront reality...
...Clifford Irving wowed the harebrains with his suggestion that no crime be punishable by imprisonment unless it invblves grave bodily injury...
...Renee Richards chose to lead the patheticos who call themselves "transsexuals" mit of the operating room and into t h e United States Open...
...A thrill comes with the contemplation of this saga...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS ý82 August passes, and those biithe spirits who were denied tl~e swell spectacle of another McOovern candidacy are beginning to perk up, for now there sprouts in gaudy profusion hard evidence that the Democrats in convention assembled have donated to the 1976 presidential campaign another whopper, a McOoo and more...
...And on August 2.1 the forward-looking American Independence Patty exhibited ro the world tilt...
...82 Against him will stand President Gerald R. Ford, the political heir to all the vast powers of Richard M. Nixon, husband of the enlightened Betty Ford, and darling of the intelligentsia...
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...Alan Crawford 32 35 In Ogr~i~a~,~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William F. Gavin 35 36 A~qi~'from...
...Executive Socretary: Marian Staum...
...Robert Conquest 22 Departments 2 The Continuing Crisis...
...And in Genoa, Italy, the C~w, eb/m~n" investigating Mr...
...F~owe'~ chances for reelecti, m. q{ Mr...
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