The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis Taking advantage of a relatively tranquil summer, the politicians gathered in Miami Beach on two separate occasions to hold what they call presidential nominating conventions....
...Citing the law's obvious incongruence with the Fourteenth Amendment, Judge McGann freed a Mrs...
...His wife claimed he had been drinking inordinately...
...And Billy Joe Clegg, presidential candidate of the Loyal U.S.A...
...In Murillo De Rio Leya, Spain, Pepe, a Spanish-trained snail, set a world record of three feet eleven inches to beat Grand Prix competition from eight countries...
...Despite the Nixon Administration's auspicious claims for the economy, the Blevins Popcorn Company has discontinued its Presidential Popcorn Poll due to rising costs...
...As yet Mr...
...Nixon vetoed a lavish congressional appropriation for HEW and in Freehold, New Jersey, Superior Court Judge P.J...
...The atmosphere of the Democratic convention evoked visions of the frowzy street bazaars of what were once indelicately called "bad neighborhoods...
...Agnew and in the arrest of some 1200 protesters, geniuses, poets and heralds of the New Age...
...Naturally television news covered the conventions as though they were national catastrophes by sending the usual mob of nitwits and floor walkers, whose ceaseless torrent of inanities awed viewers and entertained many small children...
...This time only four thousand partook...
...The Democrats held the first from July 10 to July 13...
...The results of the second convention were more palpable, eventuating in the renomination of Mr...
...It had been infallible for decades...
...In spite of all the show boating it was Senator George McGovern, Ph.D...
...Fearing his running mate's past behavior might imperil the ticket's popularity, the great man sought a running mate with a more respectable past...
...On August 4, Governor George Wallace asked the American Independent party to visit him not with their nomination...
...Nevertheless as the election draws near the repression increases...
...etc...
...party, kicked off his campaign in spite of an almost total news blackout...
...Hanky-panky has been sniffed by the Government Accounting Office...
...Jane Fonda cannot even go on tour in Vietnam without suffering harassment...
...The results of the first convention were ambiguous and became more so...
...Early in August they arrested four priests, a member of the congregation and a nude dancer at the recently established Church of the Hi-Life...
...At the first convention the party whose mascot is a jackass allowed the protesters to frolic within the convention hall proper...
...The third annual day of women's protests by the women liberationists (August 26) attracted fewer women than ever - though there were possibly more men than in the past...
...Arthur Bremer's next sixty-three years have been planned for him...
...The impresarios of television news also imported scholarly commentators like Theodore White, William Buckley and John Galbraith for their English speaking audiences...
...He turned to Senator Edward Kennedy and five other possible victims before R. Sargent Shriver, an unemployed landlord, agreed to take the job...
...Dunlevy (already under indictment for assault and battery and threatening murder) and clarified a great deal of confusion concerning American civil liberties averring: "everyone's a scold - everyone who's willing to speak their mind about things...
...During July casualties in Northern Ireland topped the five hundred mark when William Henry Creighton passed away as he walked toward his home...
...Rahem Mardechai be executed for rape...
...Perrin Mitchell, to break into a chorus of "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of bigotry...
...Twenty thousand women had marched in New York in 1970...
...McGann recalled an ancient New Jersey law which outlawed women from behaving as "a common scold...
...The Republicans held the second from August 21 to August 23...
...Now we are told that the Los Angeles police are cracking down on the free exercise of religion...
...Nixon and Mr...
...Timothy Leary is being deported from Swizterland under peculiar circumstances...
...Of course better choices for the Democratic convention might have been Felicia Bernstein and Masters and Johnson with Upton Sinclair explaining the mysteries of the Republican jamboree...
...While General Idi Amin was throwing sixty thousand Asians out of Uganda, assorted "republics" and "democracies" of black Africa were promising to boycott the Olympics if racist Rhodesia competed...
...Nixon has not cancelled the fall elections as the underground press predicted some while ago, but Mr...
...At the second convention the/ party of the elephant insisted that the protesters confine their antics to areas outside the convention hall...
...His last requests had been to see his parents and be visited by a woman of delights...
...In Washington, D.C...
...the House passed a rigorous (continued on page 27) CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) anti-busing bill inspiring a curious black congressman, Mr...
...But there were other historic milestones passed this summer...
...And the police raided the most prosperous massage parlor in all of Times Square on August 26...
...Bremer was refused his retrial...
...On August 26 the Games began without Rhodesia, and in Bank ok, Thiland some 30,000 sports turned out to watch Mr...
...Jesus de Santiago of Pago, Mexico was pecked to death while feeding a herd of fighting cocks...
...They turned instead to California Congressman John Schmitz...
...Wake up Amerika...
...While the Republicans assumed a motif of country club chic, celebrating the marvels of George Babbitt, who - contrary to Walter Cronkite's testimony - was not present...
...who made the most stunning gouge at history by becoming the only presidential candidate ever to have asked his running mate to resign...
Vol. 6 • October 1972 • No. 1
