Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The New York Daily News After pondering the grim possibilities of another Kennedy presidential candidacy, Mr. Jimmy Breslin, America's fattest Irish poor boy, issues a bull summoning...
...Senate" Clubs in all the states...
...How many recall that after our Revolutionary War, Tories in the 13 Colonies went to Canada or back to England...
...Seek volunteers to work in all areas pertinent and to form "Ali for U.S...
...The committee will select states as potentially viable and will name a target state at a future date...
...I think the idea of his running for president is grotesque, and I am certain that, if anything ever happened, the country would have a John Connally or a Ronald Reagan standing over the grave and announcing that what this country needs is some old-fashioned discipline...
...Appropriate advertising campaign literature etc...
...Let this comrade be heard...
...That thought fills me with ire...
...Walter Taylor: Englewood,N J.- Former Black Mayor and Pastor of Galilee Methodist Church...
...It is our further conviction that Blacks should be represented in the upper House to truly reflect a two party system of government...
...Founder of Paradise Island...
...July 14-21, 1979] The New Republic The genius of the American political system and the inescapable dynamics of modern capitalism as seen on a clear day by Professor Robert Lekach-man of New York's Lehman College: If the federal government has taken to regulating some of the more dangerous activities of our corporations, it is because corporate use of the natural environment as a free dump for noxious wastes and emissions, and of human beings as consumers of harmful foods, unsafe cars, and dubious pharmaceuti-cals, has generated public revulsion powerful enough to move Congress to reluctant action against its own campaign benefactors...
...will be forthcoming...
...May 1, 1979] Neworld Lugubrious reflections of Mr...
...True to his own convictions he can become a forum for the grass roots people, marshalling public opinions on issues affecting the nation...
...July 1979] The Nation Ms...
...Robert Richter, rises up to scotch all this sentimental flummery about "boat people...
...Executive with Atlanta Braves Ball Club...
...July 6, 1979] Inquiry A glimpse into the inscrutable mind of Mr...
...MEMBERS AD HOC COMMITTEE MUHAMMAD ALI FOR U.S...
...He would attract a large segment of ethnic support, white males and females, youth, Hispari-ics and most of the Blacks...
...In addition, the implication is that if we had won, the war would have been somehow less tragic...
...Heir to A&P fortune...
...To achieve an impact on such issues as the arms race, energy, inflation, we must organize outside and apart from the electoral process-through lobbying, vigils, protest marches, demonstrations, civil disobedience...
...August 3, 1979] The Progressive The suave and incisive Dr...
...Malcolm X) Professor in attendance at Medgar Evans College...
...Issues and ideologies have little bearing on the choice...
...Steve Lockett: Fort Lee, NJ...
...Ali, with the committee will make the final decision...
...Vietnam has an enormous food problem, and I believe it has much to do with the boat people's tragedy...
...It is the committee's firm belief that no Black currently on the national scene can be nominated and elected to the U.S...
...Joseph Heller, champion of civil liberties, the whales, solar energy, a totally sanitary environment, personal growth and an end to all this CIA-inspired gabble about "boat people'' and Pol Pot: A phrase that really gets to me, for instance, would be one of those neoconser-vative references to Vietnam as a national tragedy, but only because we lost...
...Mrs...
...Lloyd Von Elaine: Co-chairman, New York...
...Vince Martinelli: New York, Vice President, The Deak Perera Group for investments...
...Vice President WGPR-TV62 Station...
...George Avc., Linden, New Jersey 07036...
...August 4-11, 1979...
...We pride ourselves on voting "for a man, not a party," but that merely means that every two or four years we put an "X" in a box, without any assurance that the candidate or the party will perform according to the promises...
...Senate through the normal political process as structured today...
...Commonweal Another act of Christian charity from the pious editors of Commonweal, as they publish one more dithyramb from Mr...
...10022 telephone number (212) 751-7510...
...SENATE Huntingdon Hartford: Co-chairman, New York...
...By American standards, he is qualified, alert, young, articulate, wealthy, thus money is no reason for him to become actively involved...
...Rev...
...Ulysees Boy kins: Detroit, Michigan, Chairman, 1st...
...The more realistic, pragmatic, cynical side of me had a belly laugh at that foolish fellow, because that side knew that the real reason is that the arts, especially in California, is among the lowest paying field of work in the United States...
...Fred Allen: Treasurer, Linden, NJ...
...Frank Getlein, mental defective: Meanwhile, to contemplate a world without oil is to contemplate a world remarkably attractive in numerous particulars, even some generals The transition will be gradual, with phasings out and slow changes, but with any luck at all, the petro and the plastics will be gone in a century and we can live like humans again...
...The hopeful, dreamy, idealistic side of me said that the reason was because traditionally women have been the seekers of beauty, truth and the things that offer those brief, pleasant pauses from the mean-spirited world of work and war...
...And the great enemy of this country-fascism from within-would arrive...
...The first problem is that the electoral system provides no way for most citizens to have a real impact on what the Government does...
...This is one "Draft" he can't refuse...
...Jimmy Ellis: Louisville, Ky., former heavyweight champion of the world and Muhammad Ali's sparring partner and boyhood friend...
...President of Essex Union Mortgage Company and largest minority mortgage banker in U.S...
...People with that mentality, I have to admit, impress me as being the scum of the earth...
...Patron of the Arts and Literature...
...Contributions may be sent to: Fred Allen, Treasurer, Ad Hoc Committee 210 West St...
...Member of Explorers Club...
...All inquiries and information will be handled through its temporary offices located at 527 Madison Avenue-Suite 1222, New York, N.Y...
...He will not seek a position on either the republican or demoncratic ticket but will run as an independent...
...The point is, although the parallels may not be entirely accurate, that the situation of the Vietnamese "boat people" is a cruel but perhaps inevitable aftermath of a terrible revolutionary and civil war According to the United States refugee coordinator, Dick Clark, the ethnic Chinese, reportedly 90 percent of the boat people, are told to "either get out or go to new economic zones...
...We hope to finance this effort through mass contributions from the public sector of "One Dollar for Ali...
...Jimmy Breslin, America's fattest Irish poor boy, issues a bull summoning all his primitive wisdom and boozy melancholy: I say it again today...
...August 2, 1979] Press Release [Sic] As a public service to our readers- especially those who are serious collectors of facetiae-we publish the unexpurgated press release of a band of simple patriots: AD HOC COMMITTEE-MUHAMMAD ALI FOR U.S...
...Senate is serious in its intent and purpose and believes that escalating support from Americans of all ethnic origins and walk's of life will be forthcoming...
...Not simply because they were prominent in Nguyen Van Thieu regime's corrupt economy...
...He would bring a new facade to the political arena...
...President, King World Film Productions...
...Sidney Lens exhorts us to step beyond the barbed wire of mere democracy in another of his prettily-put yawps on behalf of the People's Republic of North America: Even if we had "good leadership" today -Edward M. Kennedy, say, for those who are still captivated by visions of Camelot-it would not matter, for the problems confronting the United States are systemic, riot incidental or aberrational...
...Robert King: Summit, NJ...
...This is the motivating force that caused the formation of this committee and Muhammad Ali is our choice for the following reasons: He is the only Black today that has a solidly built in constituency that cuts across all ethnic barriers and with the correct format is capable of crashing the walls of Senate isolation...
...Or that after the Civil War many slaveholders fled to South America and thousands of ex-Confederates roamed the West before finding a new life...
...Corliss Lamont brings some much-needed historical perspective to Joan Baez's "Open Letter to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam/' a letter highly critical of that humanitarian republic...
...Cannot be intimidated, has good religious values, likes helping people and is from outside the establishment, free of obligations...
...the Baez signatories let themselves be led like brainless sheep into the quagmire of one of the most disgraceful documents in U.S...
...SENATE The Ad Hoc Committee formed to "draft" and run Muhammad Ali for the U.S...
...Fred Beauford, an oddly unaccoladed columnist for Neworld, "the Multi-Cultural Magazine of the Arts": I once wondered out loud in this column about why it is that so many women are involved in the arts...
...Vice President, Seagrams Distillers for community relations and affirmative action...
...Betty Shabazz: Mount Vernon, N.Y...
...July /A ugust 1979] The New York Times Against unnumbered calumnies from the Cold War cabal, a curiously overlooked progressive, Mr...
...Using the 10% ratio formula, there should be ten (10) Blacks in the Senate and fifty three (53) in the House...
...like me, he has not lost a son or a job...
...Board Member of FANNIE MAE...
...political history...
...Henry (Hank) Aaron: Atlanta, Ga., Holder of world's record for home runs and one of the most famous baseball players of all times...
...To begin with, the person who says it is typically untouched by tragedy...
...Congressional District Republican Committee...
...President of Afro-American Services, Inc., a food service company instu-tional and in-flight feeding...
...We hope our officials will "vote their conscience," but how can we know what is on their conscience today, or what will be there tomorrow ? Our politics are beauty-contest politics: We vote for so-and-so because he or she "seems like a nice guy," or "sounds sincere," or is of the ethnic or religious or age or sex group we favor...
...Tullie Evans: Houston, Texas-Real Estate Developer and Investment Broker...
...The fault lies with the system per se, not just with the people who are tinkering with it...
Vol. 12 • October 1979 • No. 10
