The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - The amateurism of the Carter administration continues to be the most delicious topic of conversation wherever pundits gather, and evidence of the White House's lack of...
...Terry Kath, lead singer for the jazz-rock group Chicago, apparently mistook an automatic pistol for one of the numerous beer bottles he had emptied at a Hollywood party...
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...If my surmise is sound this would be the first time a State of the Union address was written by a dead writer—an exquisitely fitting touch, for abroad in the land is the suspicion that Jimmy Carter is already a dead president...
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...In Cerritos, California, nonviolent protestors firebombed the childhood home of Mrs...
...Associates: Robert Asahina, Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr., John R. Coyne, Jr., Alan Reynolds...
...Nathan Chaset, founder of the vasectomy, passed on to his reward...
...Milton Cronheim, is crowing once again: "I feel great," he informed the UPI, and his father was just as enthusiastic, saying "It's really a miracle...
...American culture suffered two tragic losses when 30-year-old Mr...
...Peter J. Rusthoven 25 26 The Public Policy / Deflating Unemployment Statistics Kenneth W. Clarkson & Roger E. Meiners 26 28 The Talkies / Close Encounters and High Anxiety David Everitt 28 38 Current Wisdom Assorted Jackasses 38 Book Reviews 29 Once to Every Man, by William Sloane Coffin, Jr...
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...The speech itself was a dizzy melange of Calvin Coolidge's platitudes and Lyndon Johnson's statism...
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...On January 17, Mrs...
...Della Brent, an unusually plump woman, spent four days, including New Year's Eve, in her bathtub where she became helplessly lodged during one of her infrequent attempts at bathing...
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...In this balanced and erudite discussion of Yankee infamies it is argued that the American ruling class and its militarist interests use comic books to drug innocent children into "bourgeois ideology," anti-Communism, and disrespect for science—a stupendous insight that, and it is suggestive of our comparative benightedness that no discussion of this interpretation has appeared on these shores other than in a few brief allusions on the pages of the Nation...
...The Communist government of Poland has smartened up in its struggle against the Roman Catholic Church...
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...According to reports received in America in early February, the agents of Papa Marx are now hoping to lure Catholics from their altars by introducing pornography into Poland...
...Abraham Johnson, Jr.'s three-hour protest by towing him off to the slammer while he remained locked in his automobile, his ideals uncompromised...
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...Whether this is a virtue of his intellect or his character is a moot question...
...Brown she was an angel, and all he could do was report: "I hadn't worked at one of those shows before, and I didn't know if the dude knew what he was talking about...
...In Chicago, thousands of rush-hour motorists were freed when police ended Mr...
...Mary Lou Tuttle of Seattle, Washington, was booked for making lewd telephone calls to a local mental-health clinic...
...Carter is his proven ability calmly and authoritatively to embrace blatant contradiction...
...The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...In Milan, Italy, a gentleman identified only as Mr...
...That Baltimore, Maryland, disc jockey who claims to have sent a specimen of Billy Beer to an independent laboratory for analysis now insists that he has been notified: "We are sorry to have to inform you that your horse has diabetes...
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...The federal government had laid aside $200,000 to save the relic, but through some mysterious mix-up fifty eager firemen intent on improving their technique poured gasoline on the old beauty and pffft...
...Joshua Eilberg was "never mentioned to me" though he had in point of fact been informed of the investigation minutes before...
...Arrested along with 42-year-old Mr...
...Richard Nixon, and in Lauderhill, Florida, Dr...
...The January 31 arrest of a United States Information Agency employee on charges of spying for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has caused many Americans of a dovish persuasion to rethink their long-standing prejudice against the USIA...
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...THE CONTINUING CRISIS • The amateurism of the Carter administration continues to be the most delicious topic of conversation wherever pundits gather, and evidence of the White House's lack of professionalism mounts as week follows week...
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...Roger Kaplan 9 11 When Love Is Soon Hot, Soon Cold John P. Sisk 11 15 In the Season of Our Roone Vic Gold 15 16 Torcello, Isle of Refuge F.S...
...Giovanni G. met with calamity as he lowered himself by rope down the outside of a building in hopes of catching his wife in the seraglio of a local bachelor...
...The speech's delirium can best be captured by quoting two stupendously incompatible passages whose cohabitation in the same text seems not to have jarred our president at all, though it is my guess that when he uttered the second passage at least a dozen senators woke up...
...Gregory Herbert, the saxophonist with Blood, Sweat and Tears, expired, and when 32-year-old Mr...
...G. plummeted earthward, breaking his right front leg...
...Nonetheless, he magisterially concluded: "We have emerged from bitter experience chastened but proud, confident once again, ready to face challenges once again, united once again...
...At one point Mr...
...What a mind...
...No wonder on January 12 Mr...
...Johnson, a long-time activist, became distraught at the pace he and his fellows were making on the Dan Ryan Expressway...
...Ronald L. Humphrey was a South Vietnamese peace activist, Mr...
...Alas, his wife was not in the apartment, but three other women were and in the ensuing pother Mr...
...Senior Editors: A. Lawrence Chickering, Adam Meyerson, Karl R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
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...George Nathan, William H. Nolte, Terry O'Rourke, Marc F. Plattner, G.W...
...29 31 Farewell, Israel!, by Ephraim Sevela Hillel Fradkin 31 32 Chinese Shadows, by Simon Leys & In the People's Republic, by Orville Schell Wendell N. Calkins 32 34 Conflict and Crisis, by Robert J. Donovan Richard Kirkendall 34 Publisher: Baron Von Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club...
...With a metal colander on his head and wires ominously trailing off into the copying machine, the unfortunate, and somewhat dim, suspect believed himself to be in the presence of a lie detector...
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...Frederick Gittes, representing a man who threw a banana cream pie at Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes, is defending his client's act on First Amendment grounds...
...Managing Editor: Steven C. Munson...
...And in Charlotte, North Carolina, a 68-yearold woman suffered a fatal heart attack at a faith-healing service...
...At the Ellwest Stereo Theater, Nashville, Tennessee's finest pornographic movie house, thirteen patrons, caught in the heat of their onanistic passion, were fleeced when a robber, posing as a plainclothes policeman, gathered them up, read them their constitutional rights, collected their wallets, and fled...
...Carter could inform a press conference that the investigation of Rep...
...And police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, have been given a very stern rebuke by Bucks County Judge Ira Garb for obtaining a confession from a suspect whom they attached to a Xerox machine programmed to reproduce a typed card saying "He's lying" whenever the police pressed the copy button...
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...Number 5, March 1978...
...Minnie Brown, a native of Concord, North Carolina, had just undergone the laying on of hands in a local auditorium when she looked ceilingward, hollered "Oh, I'm so happy," and croaked...
...Her condition was "surprisingly good," though according to Patrolman R.L...
...Plunkitt, Peter J. Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein, Whit Stillman...
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...The American Spectator is now published monthly except July and September at 102 West Sixth Street, Bloomington, Indiana...
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...In 1967 the Saturday Evening Club took it over, rechristening it The Alternative: An American Spectator...
...Brown, he was driven off by an usher shouting "Leave her alone, she's in the spirit...
...Manor 16 18 Under the Condor—Part Three Whit Stillman 18 22 The "Gauze Curtain" at Harvard Medical School William R. Havender 22 24 Gibbon's Silent Partner John Nollson 24 Departments 2 The Continuing Crisis 2 4 Editorial / Encomiums for Califano R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Grubbs, Jr., Neil Howe, Roger Kaplan, Terry Krieger, William Kristol, Leslie Lenkowsky, A. James McAdams III, Robert McTiernan, Judy Mathews, Rev...
...Who wrote the ludicrous document remains a mystery, but on the basis of internal evidence I hold that the thing was somehow confected by the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, who believed the mark of a fine intellect to be the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in the mind simultaneously...
...Backus, "she was real hungry...
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...I placed a telephone call to this remarkable individual, and, though I failed to reach him, some sense of the popularity of his stand can be grasped from a recorded message that greeted me: "The number you have reached, 477-4465, has been disconnected temporarily at the customer's request...
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...The contretemps raises important questions over the separation of church and state, for when one of Charlotte's specially-trained fire inspectors, Mr...
...A Cuban diplomat's attache case exploded in the lobby of a New York apartment house, and in Paramus, New Jersey, antiquarians and their allies became enraged when local firefighters inadvertently incinerated a 225-year-old house, the most precious in Bergen County...
...One of the remarkable strengths of Mr...
...And throughout the world liberals let out a yell when Mr...
...Jim Ray, tried to treat Mrs...
...The student and his severed member were brought together again in an Atlanta hospital and after a series of delicate operations the young man, Mr...
...For instance, President Carter delivered his State of the Union address on January 19—more than two weeks before National Tell-A-Joke Week...
...Finally, medical science has come to the aid of a 21-year-old Clemson University student whose most private part was amputated last fall when an enraged husband discovered the youth flagrante delicto...
...but by November 1977 the word "alternative" had acquired such an esoteric fragrance that in order to discourage unsolicited manuscripts from florists, beauticians, and other creative types the Club reverted to the magazine's original name...
...Truong Dinh Hung, an employee of the Washington-based Animal Health Institute...
...Francisco Franco Martinez Bordiu, grandson of the late Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was sentenced in Tortosa, Spain, for illegally shooting a goat...
...Ray got to Mrs...
...Hence Poland will become the first country on the progressive side of the Iron Curtain to legalize smut, though purely as an instrument of the glorious proletariat revolution...
...Second class postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana, and additional mailing offices...
...In Charleston, West Virginia, Mrs...
...The Moscow intelligentsia is in a fever over publication of a brilliant new interpretive study of America, titled simply: Imperialism: The Enemy of Humanity...
...and in the hope of bringing all Chicagoans to their senses he simply stopped his vehicle, locked its doors, and ceased to communicate with the outside world, except for an occasional obscene—albeit insightful—note to inquiring police...
...His historic drop in the polls has only been matched by Presidents Nixon and Ford...
...RET 2 The American Spectator March 1978 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 5 China, Taiwan, and American Credibility Robert A. Scalapino 5 9 Will the Kremlin Win the French Elections...
...Unsolicited manuscripts must- be accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelopes...
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...Contributors: Aram Bakshian, Jr., Christopher C. DeMuth, Terry Eastland, Jerry Gerde, K.E...
...Carter stated that for some Americans their country has become "almost like a foreign country, so strange and distant that often we have to deal with it through trained ambassadors who have sometimes become too powerful and influential—lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists...
Vol. 11 • March 1978 • No. 5
