The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • As America enters upon the second four years of the Nixonian Era, what Irving Howe has recognized as a new "social meanness" seems to be stealing across the land, and...
...But Americans were not the only persons confused by Washington's subterfuge, the Nobel Prize Prize Committee has accepted Mr...
...Michael J. Brody, who appeared to be the Lindbergh of his age when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan (continued on page 31...
...Anthony Russo went on trial on 15 counts of espionage, theft, and conspiracy...
...And on January 29 William (Fish Bait) Miller confirmed decent America's gravest fears when he carried into Congress Mr...
...It is felt even in their ranks where as many as half of those who voted for Senator McGovern actually seem to believe that Mr...
...On January 26 the heir of the Oleo Margarine fortune, Mr...
...Floyd B. Coleman, is demanding that Congress rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance so that "responsibilities" is interpolated just ahead of "liberty and justice for all," and in an election that may be but a prelude to a grimmer future, Establish ment forces are lining up behind a law and order zealot who is running for sheriff of Eddyville, Kentucky...
...The Continuing Crisis • As America enters upon the second four years of the Nixonian Era, what Irving Howe has recognized as a new "social meanness" seems to be stealing across the land, and America's com munity of conscience is in a pother...
...The Mayor of Pauketuck, New Jersey was arrested for hanging 234 cats in his greenhouse...
...So as the Community of Conscience sees it, America is entering a new ice age...
...Nixon mauled Pious George 520 electoral votes to 17...
...At his inaugural three days later, Mr...
...Daniel Ellsberg and Mr...
...On January 17 Dr...
...Nixon delivered a mean-spirited address calling for "civility and decency" in public debate and greater self-reliance "as we stand on the threshold of a new era of peace...
...Nixon's Secretary of State signed an agreement ending the Vietnam war on January 27...
...Nixon's niggardly budget for fiscal 1974, containing cuts in over one hundred social programs...
...On January 6 a joint session of Congress made it official - Mr...
...Reactionary students at the University of Michigan defeated a proposal to establish a "student dope corporation," which would have used $2,500 in student fees to buy and distribute marijuana to students...
...Over at the Lincoln Monument only sixty thousand persons protested...
...Out in the Heartland an Indiana sage, Rep...
...He had been embezzling them from the Humane Society...
...And a solidly based rumor went through the New Politics community to the effect that the Democratic National Chairman, Robert Strauss, plans to have the 1976 Democratic Convention in Muncie, Indiana...
...The candidate is none other than S. Morgan Martin, the ninety-seven-year-old veteran of the Spanish American War, who terrified dissenters back in 1906 when he served as town marshall...
...Nixon's name as a candidate for the Peace Prize...
...Officials of Madison Square Garden were put under unusual political pressure to perform the national anthem...
Vol. 6 • March 1973 • No. 6
