The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - The man who has been a conservative presidential contender since 1968 finally prevailed, and he has moved every area of...
...Then, when he latched on to a set of beliefs, it transpired that the poor fish grabbed the wrong beliefs, to wit the refuted and irrelevant dogmas of 1960s McGovernism...
...Clarence Williams of Roanoke, Virginia, who is charged with committing mayhem in his home during a televised NFL contest...
...Calamities abroad exposed his McGovernite nostrums of gentle persuasion and unilateral disarmament for the piffles that they were, but Jimmy stayed with them...
...Gerald Svendsen, a zoologist at Ohio University, has laid that rash of Bigfoot sightings in Ohio to "some weirdo psychology," and Mr...
...According to the Department, the sick shrinks will not be fully recovered until all are making at least $60,000 per year...
...Hope springs heroic...
...In London, England, a labor dispute at the Long Grove mental institution forced thirty-seven patients to take their morning meal in the cheerless presence of a fresh corpse, for the dispute left no night porters available to carry it off, and nurses would only take it as far as the dining hall...
...Events at home revealed the politics of symbolism and melodrama as moonshine, but Jimmy continued to sing of the lowly black, the lowly woman, the young, and the poor...
...and while he carried on like a slob mesmerist ministering to a congregation of backwoods slope heads, the Republic was badly damaged...
...9 In an attempt to " b r i n g peace as God's representative," Mr...
...Finally the fiend inexplicably leapt from his chair and shot Mrs...
...If it were not for a creeping realism in the Congress, more damage might have been done...
...The man who has been a conservative presidential contender since 1968 finally prevailed, and he has moved every area of American government toward the conservative middle...
...Once again the disloyal opposition will torture democracy for the cause ofprogress and despite the thunderous vox popuhheard November 4. _9 It was a historic election...
...They missed the portents of the election completely, smugly expecting as is their custom that the popolo rninuto would dutifully continue to tolerate the intolerable...
...Keith Rose of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been charged with raping five female employees of a local brothel...
...In recent years the seventy-six-year-old Russian pol suffered from a string of heart attacks and from the inability to hold his water, a frailty that was causing increasing hardship for the aged members of the Politburo who in meetings are always tightly packed together for photographing purposes and who are not as agile as in the old days...
...Two local pranksters put the thing in a neighbor's yard causing the frightened man to collapse and be rushed to the hospital where at last reports he was in critical condition...
...Still while Jimmy performed in his clodhoppers, his blue jeans, his cardigan sweaters...
...Are the 1960s undone and sepulchered...
...On October 7 the Hon...
...would not make restitution on a year-old jewel that had disappeared from her ring, put the arm on a seven-thousand dollar substitute in the Peck showroom, inserted it into her mouth, and refused to return it, pending a meeting with the company's "top man...
...From Pennsylvania comes an authoritative report by the state Welfare Department that psychiatrists at one of the s t a t e ' s booming mental hospitals suffer from "serious mental illness" due to "inadequate salaries...
...Chambers, now a convicted thief, awaits a judge's excogitations...
...Throughout polite society there is fear...
...Only the ideologized bureaucracy and judiciary remain aloof from the debauch...
...Williams in the leg...
...In Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Sheriff John Snyder has declared it "one of those practical jokes that really backfired," in speaking of a 12foot long missile constructed of oil drums and painted to look like a Soviet missile...
...Disgraceful," is the way a union organizer described the affair, but hospital authorities could point with pride to the many small acts of kindness shown the corpse by breakfasting patients, some of whom were found gamely attempting to converse and condole with the deceased...
...9 In Chicago, Illinois, consumerists are anxiously awaiting the sentencing of activist Lola Chambers, the forty-nine-year-old Romeoville, Illinois woman who was filed away in the local calaboose for larcenous demonstration...
...Unfortunately, en route to her meeting the stone became lost somewhere within the vast reaches of the aforementioned vault and not even x-rays could reveal its whereabouts...
...9 Toxic shock claimed its fortieth victim since 1975...
...And there is also good news, to wit: Mr...
...RET 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1980...
...This time it is Mr...
...Harrison A. Williams, J r . was indicted on conspiracy, bribery, the usual congressional charges...
...9 He came to Washington believing in nothing but the magic of his star...
...The call for impeachment has already been uttered...
...Medical authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, are now attributing that wave of nausea and fainting that caused an ill-timed stampede in a bus packed with forty members of the Carver High School band to "epidemic hysteria," a bizarre phenomenon that has led to the tragic soiling of so many high school band uniforms in recent years...
...9 Mr...
...Alexei N. Kosygin was forced by ill health to step down as Soviet premier...
...9 The trial of Mrs...
...The National Football League continues to make a mockery of family life in America...
...President Reagan is faced with an enormous job, and we hope that the foreign policy ideas propounded in our November issue and the economic ideas propounded this month by Tom Bethell and Karl O'Lessker will be useful...
...An entire elite in politics and the media had clearly lost touch with the people...
...Is nothing to be done...
...Richard Healy, an opposition member of the Australian par...
...Suleiman Ahmed Fathalla, a Libyan diplomat, was mugged by a right-thinking assailant in Manhattan--up with people...
...The most colossally deluded of all was the scamp in the White House, the hollowest man to reside there from time out of memory...
...So absorbed by the NFL games did Mr...
...liament, has excoriated the government for providing "French-type underwear" to transvestites in a Sydney jail, when they complained of the poor quality of women's panties provided by the government...
...John Kaczor of Union, New Jersey forsook such traditional modes of transportation as the Biblical donkey, and roared up Capitol Hill in a flaming truck, which he tried to ram into the House of Representatives...
...One other thing ought to help...
...Mao Tse-tung was again deferred when the late p o e t ' s wife refused to confess her crimes...
...Law enforcement officials have yet to apprehend or even identify the shadow)' architect of that fake "Little Miss USA" contest who conned the parents of a dozen or so young girls into sending $75 to a Georgia Post Office Box and then travelling to scenic Andover, Massachusetts for the big e v e n t - - a n o t h e r shocking display of the cavalier way police treat white-collar crime in America...
...Mao, who stands accused of various indiscretions allegedly perpetrated during the "Cultural Revolution," is quoted as stating that her famous husband will put aside all projects now occupying his time and " l e a v e heaven" to testify on her behalf...
...In Los Angeles, California, Robert Rosenberg, anticipating an affectionate kiss from Miss Diane Carasso, leaned forward toward her puckered lips and promptly had two inches of his tongue bitten off...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 October 1 to November 6 and Ron won...
...Williams become that for two full days he totally ignored his family for the glowing excitement of the boob tube despite the fact that his wife in her anxiety was repeatedly stabbing him with a small screwdriver...
...It was intoned on National Public Radio on the evening of November 5 by a typical NPR customer...
...Hence poor Mrs...
...Peck & Co...
...Chambers, miffed that S.A...
...He is also charged with making offwith 11,035 worth of their jewelry and $650 of their hard-earned cash...
...the Whigs' hour has come, and for the first time in years the talent is with them rather than the ritualistic Left...
...John W. J e n r e t t e , J r . was found guilty of ABSCAMrelated misdeeds, and on October 30 the Hon...
Vol. 13 • December 1980 • No. 12
