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THE FOUR BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT Herblock, the new Madison, renders a space-age v e r s i o n of the American Constitution: The role of the free press in all this has been to do exactly what it...
...International Herald Tribune ROYAL AMOUR A report on the curious mating habits of European peacocks from the redoubtable International Herald Tribune: Princess Anne has flown from West Berlin to Hannover, where she was met by her fianc6, Lt...
...Washington Post 30 The Alternative October 1973...
...It says the Democratic Party has lost the South forever...
...The Brisbane judge, sentencing two youths to seven years in jail for raping a girl of 11, said there was ample evidence to connect drinking and ~'the availability of cars" with multiple rape cases...
...THE FOUR BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT Herblock, the new Madison, renders a space-age v e r s i o n of the American Constitution: The role of the free press in all this has been to do exactly what it was set up to do--to act as a check on all government...
...The Lieutenant was scheduled to compete on Saturday in a riding competition at Bad Lippspringer...
...It says that there is possible in this country a moderate national anti-black alliance...
...The arresting officer said he chased her a short distance and caught her when she failed in an attempt to climb a wall...
...Thus, instead of hitting a parking violator with a succession of, by and large, useless fines, a judge could, under an experiential system do the following...
...International Herald Tribune QUACKERIES Dr...
...International Herald Tribune ETERNAL VIGILANCE From the editorial department of the New York Times where every lover of liberty, soon or late, becomes a busybody and a boor: Such lethal circuses are in no sense justified by their morbid popularity (concern for human life...
...Such intolerable waste-along with the glorification of murderous s p e e d - in the face of a worsening energy crisis is comparable to the public burning of food at a time of famine...
...Today we impound for the wrong reasons and for the wrong time periods...
...I'm telling people about a watershed election, an election that's going to change their lives...
...A neighbor said she had noticed teenagers going in and out of Mrs...
...Read and marvel: In the future, I believe, we will make far greater use of them, recognizing their profound educational and rehabilitative value...
...Police said Mrs...
...International Herald Tribune AMERICAN EXPORT Not only an example of the contagious nature of American liberalism, but proof that it can even be improved...
...These are startling phenomena...
...Police said the woman dropped three glazed packets containing a white powder believed to be heroin...
...Alvin Toffier, self-described "futurologist" and author of the bests e l l i n g scientific treatise, Future Shock, offers his prescient suggestions for tomorrow's calaboose or as he calls them, "experimental sanctions...
...But there are important secondary issues also, notably the wasteful consumption of fuel at a time of shortages which threaten to curtail the legitimate use of automobiles and aircraft...
...Watergate isn't the crisis of American civilization...
...Encounter PRESIDENTIAL POWER Another example of the "activist" president in motion: Albert Barke, 89, was honored as the area's oldest scout by local Cub Scout packs at a special ceremony recently...
...Washington Post APOCALYPSE, INC...
...But I'm not competing on the piety and indignation circuit...
...One couh], it seems to me, be far more imaginative in the kinds of things we do...
...Kelly's home lately...
...It says that the working men no longer belong to the Democratic Party...
...They have set fire to Howdy Doody Land, snipped the ears off the Mouseketeers and worked an intimidating devastation on the Decade of Johnny Unitas, the cool, well-behaved, crew-cut years of precision and technique...
...A shoplifter who has taken clothing from a store might have her own clothes impounded for a week or a month, and so forth...
...Wall Street Journal CHINESE SPOKEN HERE Either Nicholas von Hoffman is new to English or he is sending his messages in code: Senator Sam and his colleagues are doing a work of fearful destruction in the Old Senate Caucus Room...
...In calling to the witness stand this long string of young men, each of whom grows his sideburns to the regulation mid-ear length, they have shattered the myth of the American Good Boy, Mom's Boy and Pop's Pride...
...A vandal who has ripped a seat on the bus or subway might be sentenced to a day or two in a seat factory, or at painting and maintenance work at the depot...
...Or perhaps park a city truck in the offender's driveway for a week...
...Francis Kelly was arrested Saturday night after several women complained that she was selling narcotics...
...Porter, Sloan, Magruder and the rest with the indistinguishable inter-changeable faces are the first full suburban generation to take all their moral nourishment from Walt Disney, but Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs--Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Dopey, Grumpy, Bashful and Doc have, in real life, turned into Black Dick and the Seven CREEPS, Sneaky, Sleazy, Greedy, Tacky, Dirty, Awful and Shlock...
...Sentence him to a day of street cleaning, during which he must remove the garbage from under the illegally parked cars...
...Mark Phillips...
...Barke, who has been a Boy Scout leader since 1914, was presented with a citation from President Nixon...
...He said it might also be a good idea to display similar warnings in snack bars and to print them on driving licenses...
...The 1973 debacle at Indianapolis deserves to be turned into tombstone and epitaph of a savage aberration in the world of sport...
...Or impound his car not for an hour or two, but for a month or two, so that the sentence forces experiential changes in the offender's life...
...Hail the Australian wowser: In Australia--where the beer is notoriously strong--a judge has proposed that beer cans be labeled with a warning against rape--along the lines of the health-hazard warnings on cigaret packages...
...Offenders who ripped the telephone book out of the public booth might be given a week of cleaning the urine smell out of those phone booths...
...New York 7~rnes POLITICAL ANALYSIS The profundity of Herblock, cartoonist: I don't think our real national security is to be found in the use of rubber stamps--or rubber gloves...
...Their embrace was described by an airport official as "very tender...
...It signals "the breakup of the traditional party system in America," he says...
...International Herald Tribune LAW AND ORDER From Philadelphia comes word of youth culture's latest triumph: Police have a 90-year-old woman narcotics suspect on their hands...
...Theodore White, author, d i s c u s s e s his new book on the infamous 1972 e l e c t i o n and brings every pious American's blood to the boiling point: Watergate is an outrage . . . . It's a crime and I won't be happy until I see at least a half dozen of those guys in jail...
...The crisis is the inability to manage our economy, the inability to manage our cities...
...Here are some examples of how this might be done: while some of them are trivial, they illustrate a process that might be applied to a more serious matter as well...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
