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C U R R E N T W I S D O M Chicago Tribune The cruel plight of one Romont Parris, who - - b u t for the depredations of our capitalist system--might well have his health, his dignity, and...
...She knows I was born in China and love and respect the Chinese, so whenever I'm around, her universe is suddenly thronged with chinks...
...Carter then supplied his own translation: "He is an honest man...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M Chicago Tribune The cruel plight of one Romont Parris, who - - b u t for the depredations of our capitalist system--might well have his health, his dignity, and several stupendous novels to his credit: Medicaid records would lead you to believe that Romont Parris must be one of the sickest men in Illinois and possibly the world...
...Mr...
...We'll have Mr...
...start toiling that soil...
...1, 1975 through May 31, 1976, consists of 56 pages of single-spaced entries...
...Perhaps feeling he was getting on swampy ground, Mr...
...And out they came...
...Jeremy Rifkin, esteemed director of the People's Bicentennial Commission, discourses upon the causes of the American Revolution: Look, we got the same problem we had 200 years ago...
...The taxpayers also paid the fare for the taxis in which Parris rode to the doctors' offices, clinics, and drugstores, records show...
...The average number of prescriptions filled for a welfare recipient in 17 months is 20...
...September 15, 1976] Washington Post Mr...
...John Hersey chronicles a luscious indulgence extended to Madame Lillian Hellman, Ritualistic Liberalism's preemin e n t ' 'moral force' ' : Nothing gives this girl greater pleasure than to be shocking...
...Kallinger, after hearing his attorney respond to the judge's question that the defendant was in court, resumed his gyrations and began calling out, "Maaaaaa...
...Midwesterners who go to live elsewhere learn fast enough--and many express the feeling that there was much they had not heard at home, especially from the Midwestern press...
...After Mr...
...The full beard that he had worn for the last year had been shaved off by a Bergen County jail barber...
...I think he's a little wacko...
...Carter added, because then, doctors tried to prevent diseases--typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, polio...
...He was like Malcolm X. You ever heard of Malcolm X? Like Malcolm X. Now he came down here on earth and came over to America to Philadelphia and he said, I am really basically (he said to himself) I'm ashamed to be part of the human race cause you are so stupid, you people...
...And then this guy comes along named Tom Paine, very disagreeable fellow, bad personal habits, common alcoholic, never washed...
...Oh, aw, raa," Mr...
...During that period, Parris had 1,650 prescriptions for drugs filled in his behalf...
...August S, 1976] New York Times Reporter Donald J a n s e n displays the prodigious narrative gifts demanded of the modern courtroom reporter in this era of meticulous justice: The defendant entered the courtroom appearing wan and pallid...
...Public aid records show that Parris' wife, Edwina, and their two children also ran up Medicaid bills during the period, but not quite at the same rate...
...It is almost a half-inch thick and was compiled by the state controller's office from records of the Public Aid Department...
...I would like your undivided attention...
...Pards could not be reached for comment...
...There's no other way to organize our life...
...March 5, 1976] Jimmy Carter Examples of the Wonderboy's swell fluency, from an edgy reporter condemned to accompany him through the whole bloody campaign: The United States Government, he likes to say, is an instrument "on which we can predicate answers to difficult questions...
...Soon after he sat down he began moaning, making a noise that sounded something like a sheep's "baa...
...September 18, 1976] The New Statesman E n g l a n d ' s tough-minded New Statesman plays a variation on the old democratic adage, the price of liberty is eternal equanimity: The Soviets are using their navy to flex their Great Power moscles around the globe--.and short of blockade and war there is nothing that can be done to prevent this...
...September 26, 1976] The New Republic Mr...
...August 12, I976] 36 The Alternative: An American Spectator November 1976...
...Carter said to his baffled audience, "tried to immunize me against those diseases--and quite often they succeeded...
...So he writes this little book, Common Sense, traces monarchy back to its origin four or five hundred years earlier and sure enough he finds out that people made the monarchy...
...He wore an ill-fitting dark blue jacket, no socks and unlaced brown shoes...
...Since every entry "was covered by Medicaid, the tax-financed program for giving medical care to the poor, each was paid by the federal and state governments...
...Illinois Department of Public Aid records show that Parris ran up more than I20,000 in Medicaid bills in a 17-month period ending May 31...
...But what would we do without a monarchy...
...Asked in Columbus, Ohio, the other day to discuss his opponent, Mr...
...John Rawski, the Chicago police detective who arrested Parris, said he did so while investigating a racket in which doctors write drug prescriptions for public aid recipients who then sell them to drug users...
...Kallinger had been quiet for a few minutes, Judge Dalton entered from his chambers to begin jury selection...
...That's more than three prescriptions each day...
...you're so dumb...
...His black hair was uncombed...
...Then he began alternately singing and chanting "Aah" at different pitches...
...Did you hear me...
...The medical file of the Parris family for Jan...
...After a while they started to really dislike the monarchy, but the monarchy was perpetual, divine, everlasting, would always be here and everyone ran around the colonies saying King George is getting on our nerves...
...Nor is there much to get so alarmed about...
...He said you think that monarchy was divinely inspired, that God put the monarchy here...
...During one period of time in British history, English history, basically some ruffians came in one day and said, we the landlords, you, the serfs...
...The doctors," Mr...
...Judge Dalton asked...
...The myth of the communist monolith, discredited in the Sixties, made an overnight comeback...
...Kallinger, I expect you to conduct yourself in a proper manner," the judge said...
...Kallinger, are you not feeling well at the present time...
...Mr...
...New York Times, September I3, 1976] People's Bicentennial Commission Mr...
...In part it may have been simple lack of information...
...Thc Great Bicentennia/ Debate, 1976, The Heritage Foundation] New York Review of Books Madame Diane Johnson reveals some little known information about a remote section of the Great Republic: How can one explain the reluctance of people in the Midwest to recognize what was happening in Vietnam...
...As he went through this somber catalog of illnesses, the enthusiasm was somewhat deadened...
...Kallinger removed," the judge said...
...But Chicago police, who arrested him last week, suspect that Parris, 38, of 2244 W. Jackson Blvd., is part of yet another scheme to cheat the welfare system...
...You fools, you dumb, dumb, dumb people...
...He accepted defeat in Vietnam...
...Then Judge Dalton began to introduce the attorneys, only to be interrupted by a ringing "wha, hooooo...
...I'll prove to you that the monarchy was put here by plain old people and it's just a set of rules...
...He enjoyed good health as a Georgia farm boy, Mr...
...Then he started pulling at his red and gold striped tie, stretching it around behind his head and holding it up like a noose...
...Joseph Kraft delivers up a colossal laudation for President Gerald R. (Jerry) Ford: But he has backed into the right stances...
...He consulted eye specialists 57 times and foot specialists eight times...
...In addition, Parris visited doctors 359 times, or about twice every three days, had 58 medical laboratory tests, and was a patient in hospitals nine times...
...Kallinger sang, to the accompaniment of more sucking and kissing sounds...
...The only response was loud sucking sounds...
...Carter said, "I have never insinuated any lack of knowledge that President Ford is an honest and sincere person...
...New York Times, September 13, 1976] Jimmy Carter Reporter Charles Mohr records one of Jimmy Carter's more memorable oratorical explosions: The nation needs a better system of health, he said, and the crowd roared...
...Can you imagine not having a monarchy...
...Niggers, kikes, and idiot WASPs crowd tales told to prim folks...
...June 15, 1976] Rolling Stone After pondering Alexander Solzhenitsyn's J u n e 30, 1975 speech to the AFL-CIO a Rolling Stonian scribe makes a truly horrifying discovery: The Solzhenitsyn diatribe was nothing less than an historic event, for it flashed the word to cold warriors that it was finally safe to come out of the bunker...
Vol. 10 • November 1976 • No. 2
