The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 July 1982, and the days passed in their usual, sticky fashion, depressing the vacationless and turning them deaf to the whining of air conditioners, lawn...
...For Americans in b e t t e r health, July proved a grand time for breaking with the daily routine...
...A survey of July's artistic offerings suggests that there will be a plenitude of masterpieces for the New Criterion to marvel upon...
...The subcommittee might be wise to look into an unusual occurrence in Fabriano, Italy where allegedly "a long thicket of billions of caterpillars"' recently halted a freight train...
...In a nice touch, departing secretary Alexander Haig was named one of the "Ten Best-Dressed Men in 1982," joining Ozzie Smith, Luciano Pavarotti, and Joe Montana...
...Some of the Chinese spat on them as they went by," reported Ronald D. Roth of Fiemington, New Jersey, on board with a group of 19 American impartial observers...
...For lack of anything better to add, I shall only say: to be continued...
...And in Weatherfield, Vermont, Princeton University Professor Richard Ullman, a member of the National Security Council during the Johnson Administration and a former editorial writer for the New York Times, landed his rented glider atop a 72,000-volt power line...
...The senior Mr...
...Something must be done but this law isn't the answer," said Jim Shafer, manager of the oxymoronic Liberal Gun Shop...
...The couple's parents delayed burial beyond the resurrection deadline to give their children "the benefit of the doubt," but the kids just lay there, looking at the ceiling...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 July 1982, and the days passed in their usual, sticky fashion, depressing the vacationless and turning them deaf to the whining of air conditioners, lawn mowers, and ice cream trucks...
...The United States of America turned 206 on July 4, the holiday falling on the Sunday of a three-day weekend and causing befuddlement among the citizenry when it turned out that no one knew which day the parades and fireworks would begin...
...For starters, Christo, that boffo Bulgarian artiste who was last seen putting up a wall of white cloth over 24 miles of rolling Sonoma County hills in northern California, has moved his act to Florida's Dade County where commissioners have given the go-ahead to his plans to wrap ten Biscayne Bay islands off Miami in five million square feet of Frangipani-pink fabric...
...who, weighing his adjectives carefully, remarked: " I t ' s a great parade, an enormously happy crowd," and a nostalgic one, he might have added--some of the longest and loudest applause from the 300,000 spectators went to '.'Parents of Gays," participating as a parade unit...
...Saul Davis ended violently...
...And the love affair between Miss Constance Beller and Mr...
...Sentiment against the law was triggered by Roy Rogers, who from his Mojave Desert fortress told reporters, "They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun...
...Finally, former American Spectator managing editor Erich Eichman has resigned his position at Harper's to become managing editor of a new monthly magazine of ideas and the arts...
...I don't know how you do that in a comic book...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1982 7...
...9 In Church news, two members of a religious sect known as the Foundation of Ubiquity who hijacked a Trailways bus near Jasper, Arkansas and held its passengers.hostage "wanted to be shot" and urged police to kill them so they could rise from the dead in three-and-a-half days, eyewitnesses reported...
...9 A huge grain bin in Whiting, Iowa burst and spilled 350,000 bushels of corn seven feet deep along a lonely stretch of highway, and President Reagan extended grain exports to the Soviet Union for another year...
...Making his first appearance at the parade was Representative Phil Burton (D.Calif...
...I f the wire had gone across the other wing, that guy would have been a french fry," concluded Springfield Fire Department Captain Barry Stevens...
...two dropped out for medical reasons while the rest persevered that they might become still healthier...
...The two were walking hand in hand through Central Park when Mr...
...And did Managing Editor Eichman catch musicologist Bonnie Barnett's recent rendition of her Tunnel Hum II in AFlat, a pulsating work performed-best in pedestrian underpasses...
...Hoffa has not been seen for seven years...
...WP (R...
...At the White House the purge of Carter holdovers resumed with the firing of hairstylists Yves and Nancy Graux, and George Shultz was sworn in as our new secretary of state...
...9 But the real news from San Francisco was made by those who shoot from the hip in a more carefree manner...
...Moving south, to Texas, Donnie Rogers, a husky paraplegic, led t~,o of his colleagues in a-wheelchair climb up the 8,75_l-foot Guadalupe Peak at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park...
...They were dragged off by their feet through the aisles...
...According to a federally protected witness testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Hoffa was bagged on orders of several East Coast mobsters who had him "ground up in little pieces, shipped to Florida, and thrown into the swamp...
...The magazine, called the New Criterion, will appear for the first time later this summer...
...It may be the most accurate biography of the Pope published in America," said one writer connected with the project...
...The slimy Jaruzelski, meanwhile, ever mindful of semantic nuances, chose the term "continued crisis" in discussing that economy...
...The city celebrated its 13th annual Lesbian-Gay Freedom Day parade, headed by the snarling "Dykes on Bikes" who were followed by the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps: "Wearing leather vests, short leather pants and black high button work shoes, the men tossed batons in unison as they pranced down Market Street," reports combat-zone correspondent Gary E. Swan...
...In San Francisco, police reported that only 15 pistols were turned in after a law banning their possession took effect on July 28...
...Emmett Tyrrell...
...Writing in the New York Times, Serge Schmemann notes that economic figures for Poland for the first half of 1982 point to evidence of "the continuing crisis" wracking that country...
...Rainier to become the first amputee to conquer the mountain without using an artificial leg...
...In Sunrise, Washington, a one-legged businessman Don Bennett, 52, "hopped" his way to the top of Mt...
...Davis, forgetting to disengage his hand from that of Miss Belier, sneezed into her paw, thus precipitating a nasty scene...
...is coming out with a comic-book biography of Pope John Paul II sometime in August...
...Yet Arkansas State Police sharpshooters could only wound the couple, who thereupon turned their guns on each other...
...9 In Detroit, the son of Jimmy Hoffa has petitioned the Oakland County Probate Court to declare his father legally dead...
...I felt we hit something mushy and suddenly the wheels started spinning," the engineer later said...
...Jr., who is on vacation, will be back in our November issue...
...9 In other news from the publishing world, Marvel Comics, Inc...
...The group began its trek with five members...
...As it was, in many neighborhoods little boys (and, one supposes, little girls) continued to set off firecrackers weeks past the July 5th deadline, much to the pleasure of all National Rifle Association stalwarts...
...Meanwhile, five Chinese hijackers on a domestic flight from Xian to Shanghai were given little time for religious expression when vigilante crew members and passengers aboard the Soviet-built Ilyushin 18 took up bottles, seat parts, and even a mop handle and bludgeoned the pirates into a state of Maoist bliss...
...Later in the month, a reputable Midwestern university press announced the publication of a potentially seminal work, Gay and Gray: The Older Homosexual Man, by Raymond M. Berger, self-professed winner of "Humanitarian of the Year for my work with older g a y s . " The treatise is based on an exhaustive sampling of ten subjects, alas none of them congressmen...
...As befits its genre, the work shies away from issues on which the Pope has taken controversial positions: "We don't deal with whether he's a liberal or a conservative," Marvel President James Galton explains...
...In closing, l might impress upon readers of this column that its heading is gaining world-wide circulation...
Vol. 15 • September 1982 • No. 9
