The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • June 1 to July 1, and a rainy spring turned into a muggy, polluted summer. The children of the Republic found their movie in Raiders of the Lost Ark, applauding most when...
...He was knocking the Beverly Hills diet the other day," Atkins charged...
...Taking no chances, California Governor Jerry Brown agreed to perform jury duty in a criminal case revolving around the slashed tires of a Serbian Sacramento family, and as foreman produced a verdict within 35 minutes...
...Two pretenders to Tarnower's dubious throne squared off on NBC's "Tomorrow Coast to Coast," Nathan Pritikin charging that the Dr...
...In all other ways, however, Jean Harris's break with her past is complete...
...Poland, in the meantime, remained under siege...
...Overseas again, in a gesture of friendship to visiting Vice President George Bush, French President Mitterand appointed four Commu nists to ministerial posts in his new government on June 23...
...The children of the Republic found their movie in Raiders of the Lost Ark, applauding most when a swashbuck ling Arab was gunned down by a no-nonsense American...
...Embattled fans resorted to the only weapon left to the powerless this season and com menced hunger strikes throughout the nation...
...Harris proclaimed that she has gained 15 pounds in recent weeks...
...On June 29, Freddie Silverman was fired as NBC's head of programming...
...Not in Czecho slovakia, apparently, where single-slate candi dates for that country's national assemblies and local councils won 99.96 percent of the vote in the June 7 general elections...
...An early victim of this sudden shift in spending habits was Max the Seal of Lincoln Park, Chicago, who died of a "stomach full of coins...
...And in Frankfort, Indiana, Miss Zerna A. Sharp, the inventor of Dick, Jane, Spot, and other American words, died at 91...
...Wearing plastic tampon holders as earrings, Miss Friedman greeted guests in a garden featuring a four-foot "Tamponata...
...Robert C. Atkins high cholesterol diet causes heart problems, bad breath, constipation, and fatigue, Atkins that the Pritkin regime can cause osteoporosis, a softening of bone struc ture...
...The simian molester came across his victim asleep in the shade of a field, tore off her panties, "and calmly had intercourse with her...
...On June 29, a rabid skunk attacked a dog in Bloomington, Indiana...
...The former President, es chewing the fratricidal Zeitgeist let loose by the brothers of Ernest W. Lefever, defended his hard-pressed sibling: "Billy was singled out for special persecution because he was my broth er...
...prisons, awarded a third prize in the "non-fictive" category to Emily Harris, former tutor to Patty Hearst, for "On the Open Road," an account of a revolutionary custody battle...
...Harris's victory was assured when another contestant, James Earl Ray, failed to meet PEN's stringent deadline...
...Unfortu nately, this latter example of the compensatory spirit governing the Iran-Iraq war was lost upon striking major league ballplayers and owners, who plunged the nation into a historic funk and sent fans in droves to already overcrowded zoos...
...PEN, an international writers' association that hands out annual writing awards to inmates in U.S...
...Philip Agee failed to recover his passport and is being hailed as a tourist without a country...
...Jimmy then promptly applied for access to the PX at a nearby military base while Billy set off for Alabama, with Plains, Georgia in his rear-view mirror...
...And on June 18, Justice Potter Stewart announced that he would soon vacate the Woman's seat on the Supreme Court...
...On June 21, the Supreme Court upheld a male-only draft, and the California State Court of Appeals promptly dismissed the suit of a Redwood City High School student suspended for wearing a "F---the Draft" button to class...
...In Plains, Georgia, Billy Carter was forced sell his legendary property at an auction attended by some 300 people including his destitute brother...
...We're ready for the rapture," said devout construction laborer Bub Bowman...
...In criminal matters overseas, a 23-year-old Dawuan, West Java woman was raped recently by a "fat monkey of still undetermined species," the West Java national news agency reported...
...Such frivolity aside, the loss of Dr...
...Ray was stabbed 22 times by four inmates contemptuous of Ray's auctorial airs...
...Pritikin makes is that he tries to intimidate people against all the other diets...
...In a last shot at her de parted lover, Mrs...
...Said one striker, the whimsical 215-pound Rob Graham of Muscatine, Iowa, "I've been meaning to lose some weight for a while now," and added that he'll only take vitamins, liquids, and "an occasional beer...
...In Berkeley, the illustrious Nancy Friedman threw a party to celebrate the publication of her latest classic, Everything You Must Know About Tampons...
...for one thing, the pugilistic pedagogue is now "enjoying things I never thought I'd enjoy . . . like having cold water in my sink...
...The long arm of litigiousness continued to go unslapped as it poked and prodded through the plackets of the national fabric...
...In East Boston, Illinois, James Silvestri was forced to pose for photographers clad in a towel after his three-story, 100-yearold house collapsed to the ground while he was taking a shower...
...While putting the finishing touches to his manuscript inside the library of the Brushy Mountain State Pentitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, Mr...
...In Bulgaria, moreover, Communists weren't even willing to share power among themselves when on June 16, Stanko Todorov was replaced by Grisha Filipov as prime minister...
...My little one sort of wants a threewheeler before it happens, but we're ready to go...
...Herman Tarnower remains insurmountable...
...The big mistake that Mr...
...Western analysts praised the move as one that confirmed recent French Commu nist setbacks...
...In the arts, women again dominated the news...
...After all," observed one departmental chairman of International Stud ies, "How often do you come across Commu nists willing to share power...
...Shortly before her death, the famed neologist looked back fondly on her decades of molding the embryonic grammatical structures of six-year-olds and observed, "There's noth ing these book children do that a child couldn't remember having done themselves...
...On June 30, after nagging at a Washington, D.C...
...WASP...
...This shake-up is not expected to affect Bulgaria's foreign policy...
...In a carefully worded statement, Brown remarked, "It's an unusual experience that won't be forgotten for a long time...
...Applause among the plebs grew even louder upon news of the Israeli caper in Baghdad and the Ayatollah Beheshti's disap pearance while on tirade in Teheran...
...Some 50 members of a Tucson, Arizona religious group decided on a more proven method through which to extend their mortality when they announced that on June 29 they expected to be physically lifted to Heaven...
...But at an upstate New York correctional facility for women, Jean Harris followed the thump of a different drummer...
...Meanwhile, a hunger strike by five inmates at the Rushville, Indiana jail was disrupted when a deputy caught the inmates "nibbling...
...ERA rally that interrupted afternoon naps in the vicinity of Lafayette Park, Alan Alda debuted on ABC's "Nightline," where his voluptuous excogitations repeatedly succumbed to the intellectual charms of George F. Will, patriot...
...Wall Street execu tives were being terrorized by a men's room bandit who pounces as they sit defenselessly in their stalls poring over the latest stock reports...
...The woman's husband declined to press charges, noting, "After all, it was only a monkey...
...It's actually very refreshing...
...In Los Angeles, two men who froze human corpses in liquid nitrogen shortly after their demise under the assumption that future medical breakthroughs might be able to undo their deaths, were ordered to pay $1 million in damages to five claimants "who say their parents thawed...
Vol. 14 • August 1981 • No. 8
