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Curent wisdom CREDIBILITY Proof that no one is going to put one over on Frank Reynolds: After a brief talk to the New Hampshire legislature, Muskie went outside to, as his printed schedule put...
...Denying any jocose intent, Student President Roger Brooks put a serious tone on the affair when he bespoke the highest ideals and intentions of younger generation by declaring that the students' preference represented a "nonaggressive symbol and showed the students' preference for academics over athletics...
...It's the only place I've seen where they have traffic jams of all Cadillacs...
...6,1972 MORE CREDIBILITY Proof that there remain exceptions to every rule, as the oracular Dr...
...Curent wisdom CREDIBILITY Proof that no one is going to put one over on Frank Reynolds: After a brief talk to the New Hampshire legislature, Muskie went outside to, as his printed schedule put it, mix with the citizens, most of whom were high school age and practically all of whom were recruited by his staff...
...Kissinger continued to serve the President from thirty thousand feet, traveling this time to meetings with Leonid Brezhnev, the North Vietnamese, the South Vietnamese and several French ladies whose names have been withheld...
...The ultimate meaning of the one-man one-vote principle is that everyone may run for office and vote for himself...
...York Times editorialized that the United States could be assessed as much as thirty-five per cent...
...Those with the most cousins and brothers-in-law on their private payroll will be elected...
...The SALT agreement was accepted by the Senate, and Congress agreed to the accord on September 26...
...On September 12 the Senate Armed Services Gommittee began disinterring the records of General John D. Lavelle, who seems to have conducted an unauthorized war...
...Eric Sevareid, the handsomest man in television, pops his shower cap: In New Hampshire Muskie won but lost, while McGovern lost but won...
...William L. Taub, LL.B...
...While on the stage, Violetta could not stay on her feet because she was dying in Alfred's arms, though, of course, not until she had finished singing her aria...
...Well, after she expired Humphrey said he liked the opera a lot and he hoped all these folks would vote for him...
...Why not...
...He had introduced federal gun control laws, so the gun lobby mounted a massive attack and defeated him...
...Richard Nixon was at loose ends and slid eastward right into the presidency...
...So the universities remain the cultural centers of the nation, but tension did show through at Scottsdale Community College where the state judiciary and university administration ganged up on students when they voted to nickname their athletic teams the "Artichokes" with colors of pink and white...
...Eric Sevareid CBS News November 16,1971 CANDID CAMERA A rare moment of candor in David Brink-ley's delirious Journal: John, I have only a few random, aimless, pointless, disjointed r amblings about holding a political primary down here in Florida...
...Eric Sevareid CBS News March 15, 1972 TELEVISION HUMOR While commenting after Mayor David Kennedy of Miami, Florida had endorsed Senator Humphrey for the presidency, Roger Mudd, humorist, archly sketched several large truths: How warm, wonderful and beautiful it is to have a Kennedy on your side, even though his first name is David and he has a Baltimore accent...
...David Brinkley NBC News March 13,1972 DROLLERIES Mr...
...However, since Muskie himself now claims that he did not know, perhaps all mindreaders should now go to the woodshed...
...Shortly thereafter, the United States showed displeasure at bankrolling 31.5 per cent of the UN budget, though on September 25 the New...
...One eastern university offered a comparative biographical study of Richard Speck, Charles Manson, Charles Whitman, Bob Hope and Richard Nixon...
...Reynolds takes a bath: Muskie will not say tonight what he plans to do, but he will announce tomorrow that he is supporting George McGov-ern and will ask his delegates to vote for McGovern on the first ballot in Miami Beach...
...One cause for the tranquility on the campuses might be that many universities featured updated curricula which drew students away from mischief and into serious study...
...Those who did so may now survey the con-spicious fruit of their zeal - the shooting of George Wallace, in Maryland today...
...So, not for the first time I was wrong...
...President Chester Arthur's life shone in a new light when much new evidence concerning his career turned up amongst the possessions of the recently deceased Chester Arthur III, a Los Angeles Guru...
...His new policy will cost the government more, but not the citizens...
...And that was today's episode in the system at work, somehow making democracy live...
...Now, Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles, having produced peace, love, beauty and fresh air locally is sliding east to campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...HEW announced that overall enrollment was the lowest in twenty-eight years even though the college population was up 500,000, bringing the grand total of prospective truth seekers and wowsers in the American Empire to nine million...
...With a strong push from the Muskie Headquarters, I'm on my way...
...Apparently, ignorant of the result of a recent Puerto Rican election in which only 4,205 of 702,-601 voters desired independence, an organization calling itself the United Nations Committee on Colonialism took up the question of American imperialism in Puerto Rico...
...10,1972 DELECTATIONS George McGovern talks of politics and South Dakota cuisine in a memorable, in depth, interview with CBS: If I don't win any delegates in Wisconsin, I'll personally eat a crow on April 5. - George McGovern CBS News March 29,1972 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) Govern appeared on Wall Street with a revised set of miscalculations for econ-nomic joy...
...Let this reinforce your skepticism about what you read and hear...
...Bobby Fisher became America's first World Chess Champion by beating Boris Spassky of Russia...
...Left wing and right wing students entered into an internecine dialectic in the streets of Chile while schools opened quietly in much of the United States...
...The Olympics are over as are the Nineteenth World Plowing Championships held in Vernon Center, Minnesota and won by Mr...
...At the northern end, there is often extreme poverty, marginal farmers in tar-paper shacks with privies out back and hand-wringer washers on the front porch, whereas down here in Miami Beach it must be possible, averaging about three people to a car, for the entire population to ride around in Cadillacs...
...George McGovern ABC News Sept...
...David Brinkley NBC News March 14,1972 BRAIN DRAIN Mr...
...In Florida Muskie lost but lost, McGovern lost but lost, Humphrey lost but won and Wallace won but won...
...Furba, the oldest polar bear in the world, passed away at his Frankfurt residence, while in Chicago, Charles J. Correll, radio's Andy of .Amos and Andy," suffered a fatal heart attack...
...Frank Reynolds ABC News June 8,1972 INCREDIBILITY Proof that even while admitting to a mortifying botch some fellows can strut if they whip up enough melodrama and gas: Muskie will not say tonight what he plans to do, but he will announce tomorrow that he is supporting George McGovern, and he is asking his delegates to vote for McGovern on the first ballot in Miami Beach...
...Mr...
...It has certainly reinforced mine about what I am told by a certain member of Muskie's staff, who has never suggested that he did not know what the Senator was going to do...
...And Preston Broder of New Haven, Connecticut announced that he has collected one pound of body lint since he began college...
...It's an interesting, curious state...
...Frank Reynolds ABC News Jan...
...Clyde Hel-men of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania grew a stalk of corn measuring fifteen feet, eight inches...
...While between the acts, Humphrey was in the audience shaking hands and saying if elected he would get the economy back on its feet...
...Howard K. Smith ABC News May 15,1972 VISIONS OF AN OPIUM SMOKER Another curious passage from David Brinkley's Journal, a program that NBC fancies as political commentary: New York City's Metropolitan Opera, on tour, opened last night in Cleveland with La Traviata and in the Opera House was Humphrey...
...David Brinkley NBC News May 2,1972 POLARIZATION Another specimen from the candidate of gentleness who promise« to bring us together: Any young person who supports President Nixon is too confused to know which end is up...
...James Hoffa was taken for a ride by the renowned Mr...
...Universities began offering courses in comic book appreciation, jews-harp tuning, advanced ghetto jargon, yogurt culturing, transcendent metaphysical dialogue and conversation, the phonics of peace, elementary Gullah, Trauma I and II, slang for beginners and much more...
...Lightning struck the Wall Street Journal on September 19...
...One feels hopeless protesting the gun cult that prevails in this nation, as in no other nation, but one has to do it...
...Eric Sevareid, generally appraised as television's most powerful intellect, flourishes his cerebral stuff: Long ago Frank Lloyd Wright remarked that the continent is on a tilt and everything loose is sliding into Southern California...
...And finally congratulations must be extended, even at this late date, to a twenty-three-year-old youth from Temperance, Michigan who hit upon a mode of youthful revolt commending itself to popular emulation, when he did himself in on a national shrine in Washington, D.C...
...Roger Mudd CBS News Nov...
...Frank Reynolds ABC News June 9,1972 TABLE ETIQUETTE Poor David Brinkley shows how difficult it is to talk intelligently while everyone else is eating: Wallace has grabbed the busing issue, clutched it to his chest as if it were a bowling trophy with his name engraved on it, and he has held on to it...
...16,1971 CAUSE AND EFFECT The art of causality as practiced by one of television's great minds: Two years ago Senator Joseph Tidings ran for re-election from the state of Maryland...
...Willi Flatwitzer of Austria...
...A Brazilian company has produced a hot dog made of fish, and Detroit's 1973 models are out...
...You are looking at a man whose political education is obviously an ongoing process...
...Now, a lot of things are sliding out of southern California...
...Well, on the stage, Alfred's father was complaining that Alfred had to end his sinful relationship with Violetta because it was scandalizing the family and making it difficult for Alfred's sister to marry anyone of good family and money...
Vol. 6 • November 1972 • No. 2
