The Continuing Crisis
T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S . February 4 to March 6 and Mr. Mark David Chapman, accused murderer of Mr. John Lennon, keeps thumping for that forgotten masterpiece. The Catcher in the Rye....
...Robeit Hunter, president of the American Medical Association, shocked an apple-cheeked audience at Western Washington University's Food Perspectives Fair by coming to the defense of "junk foods...
...Jenrette the only solon moved to romantic flights in the shadow of the Capitol...
...It was a hell of a thing to say during Dr...
...Also charged was the Hon...
...Huntington, Yale 04, had been a leading Presbyterian minister until he took up the cause of nudism, ultimately becoming the first president of the International Nudist Conference and America's leading nudist theoretician...
...In Frankfurt...
...Finally, in Muske-gun...
...Before a group of foreign correspondents in the sacred city of Jedda he implored the Reagan administration to allow his 22 children to receive an American education complete with hot lunches, capitalist economics, political pluralism, the whole shebang...
...had intercourse with her on the steps of the U'.S...
...My wish is for all of you to someday read The Catcher in the Rye," he notified The New York limes...
...Over the past 24-and-a-half months he has entered 1" beauty salons, availed himself to the professional skills of the beautician, and absconded with his hair still in rollers...
...answers...
...Berkowitz's cell until prison officials removed him "for his own safety"-a shockingly judgemental decision that is bound to elicit protests from prison reformers and from members of the mental hygiene movement in general...
...but the do-goodets and the para sites howl anyway...
...I iron clothes and sweep the floor very efficiently...
...Montana For over a year this savage has terrorized the community by talking his way into women's homes, apprising them o f t h e presence of bugs in their hair, and in many instances actually roving over their scalps extricating fictitious insects...
...and a thirty-seven-year-old college boy with the historic name of Jerry Rubin was sentenced to do community-service work for attacking Edward Teller with a piece of cake, despite Mr...
...West Germany, U.S...
...Henry S. Huntington assumed room temperature on February 16...
...Jetton S. Douglas, a lobbyist for Children's Rights, Inc., had made the same mistake...
...He left no books, no essays, not even a heroic or romantic escapade...
...In a nation hankering for grandeur and denied substance he became the master of bland ceremony, and through it all he never more than intimated the existence of an adult brain...
...Louis Quirros, a transsexual who lived but a bouquet's throw from Mr...
...The women of the fevered brow suffered a setback when ii was revealed that Mrs...
...Cron-kite's last days...
...Two hours before, Mr...
...In Bellingbam, Washington, Dr...
...Joseph S. Smie-tana...
...Nor was the Hon...
...1 n t e r e s t i n M r s . R i t a I en rette's memoirs...
...Stella Walsh, the Olympic track star of the 1930s who died last year, was actually half male...
...The unusual criminal career of Miss Nancy J. Cain was apparentlv put on ice when she was chatged with fraud by wire and impersonating a federal offer Presenting herself at countless fraternuv houses across the country as a federal agent in need of money and he man protection, the five-foot three-inch, 230-pound Miss Cain hornswoggled dozens of college boys into loaning her money and flying with her across the Republic in search of imaginary culprits...
...On February 4, Representative Jon C Hinson (R...
...Another of President Carter's policies has been heaved aside, this time his attempt to modernize our military but at a sensible cost...
...Miss...
...RET...
...Gro Harlem Brundtland was installed as Prime Minister of Norway amid much laughter throughout the Scandinavian country...
...My guess is that in the years ahead he will try to make up for all of his vacuous exertions...
...He dwelt in the land of brom ides and feigned aitnudcs...
...Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, a nineteen-year-old kindergarten teacher...
...Wars covered from a newsroom, government policies rendered in thirty-second expositions...
...Capitol as his colleagues, during a late-night session, were taking their liberties with the rest of us...
...Ronald Reagan thumps for cuts in the tumul Carter budget and for tax reductions...
...And while on the subject: Mr...
...All my efforts will now be devoted toward this goal for this extraordinary book holds man...
...35, of being the "tick-picker' of Great Falls...
...Army and Air Force officials have banned the on-base use of roller skaies by uniformed personnel...
...Thus far the only member of the "Preppy Pantheon" from The Official Preppy Handbook to enter the government is Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush, and apprehensive Preppies cannot forget that it was Ronald Reagan himself who not long ago scorned Poppy Bush as "a Preppy, a Yalie, a sissy" - a very chilling formulation...
...Hinson's accomplice: Mr...
...Harold Moore, a Library of Congress employee...
...was arrested in a men's room at the Longworth Office Building and charged with felonious sodomy...
...The forty-year-old former Oslo shopping bag lady is not only Norway's first female prime minister but also its youngest...
...He will become a minor pest...
...It was a very sulemn affair Tears were shed in the CHS newsroom . ldiots rushed to their television sets for a last glimpse of the oval-shaped vacuum that was Dr...
...Apprehension continued to spread throughout America's Preppy community over the relative scarcity of Preppies in the Reagan administration...
...Michigan, police have cracked the "Beauty Bandit" case by arresting Michael A. Tracy, a twenty-two-year-old police reservist...
...Rubin's claim that his act of battery was "a symbolic protest against nuclear power...
...which she says will be published this spring, intensified when her husband ex-Congressman John Jenrette notified the Columbia (South Caiolina) State that he had...
...General Idi Amin emerged from the relative obscurity in which he has lived since a combination of political and social problems forced him to flee Uganda...
...humanity observed from the back seat of the CBS corporate limousine, from film clips, from peering over the soup bowls of the giants of our time never was there any indication that he understood any of the thousands of news stories he reported, or that he knew more about them than the few words he uttered during the evening news...
...hint of intellectual subsiaiue, yet people esteemed him an authority...
...David Berkowitz, the convicted "Son of Sam" murderer, has reportedly fallen in love with Mr...
...He has totally eliminated the thunderous snoring characteristic of his sleep during the presidential years and has even adopted the life of strenuous domesticity made fashionable by the late John Len non . " I cook food for my family, " the retired dictator solemnly confirmed...
...Mrs...
...Vindication was felt at the offices of the New York Review of Books when it was reported that the wife and a son of former Cambodian prime minister Lon Nol were arrested in Fullerton, California on charges of child abuse...
...His cuts still leave an larger mound of boodle for the Feds and a higher tax burden for the popolo minuto...
...Huntington died at the Unitarian-Universalist House in Philadelphia, fully clothed...
...And police have accused Mr...
...Cronkile The reverence accorded the man in his last days was even more witless than the pageantry accorded the return of the hostages...
...Here was a man who in all his public years never passed on an...
...Kerry L. Jones, a staff member of the Democratic Study Group, and Mr...
...Scoffing at "rigid vegetarianism," he described it as "a ma|or cause of malnutrition in America...
...Tracy has requested psychiatric counseling...
...And Dr Ctonkite Thegicat man's departure came on March the first Friday of Lent...
...All this anguish could have been prevented, for, as the learned Miss Gloria Steinem declared, "had the media done its job" Ronald Reagan would not have been elected...
...Evidence of America's growing fuddy-duddy-ism mounted throughout the month, and by late February it was announced that the United States Treasury would not pay the bills of a CETA-sponsored jaunt in which thirteen disad-vantaged children and their eight government advisers journeyed from Florida to take in Broadway shows...
...Now a resident of Saudi Arabia, the former Third World eminento spends much of his time sleeping and planning the liberation of Uganda...
...Furthermore she has the most absurd name in all of Norwegian politics, a factor that in itself may have accounted for her popularity with the fun-loving Norwegians...
Vol. 14 • April 1981 • No. 4