The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis - FEBRUARY 1974 AND across the width and breadth of America a concerned citizenry celebrated Ground-hog Day. In Hinsdale, Illinois, a ground hog living just off the l]linois Tollway was...
...On February 15 one of the three whooping cranes bred in captivity passed away...
...His articles have appeared in many periodicals including Commentary and S a t - urday Review . . . P e t e r Hughes is an associate of The A l t e r n a t i v e who is currently completing a Ph.D...
...Presently the Times refers to him as a "classic slavophile novelist," but some day the music will have to be faced...
...When he died his skin was bright yellow...
...Managing Editor: Neil Howe...
...Until otherwise stated, these famed salons will remain open to discriminating clients of either sex who pay one dollar a minute to talk to naked hostesses...
...Ostrowski is a goner, and her washing machine is a wreck, a fact that will not go unmentioned in CEIU's report...
...Production Editor: Barry B. Burr...
...Art Advisor: Elliott Bantield...
...Microfilm editions of The Alternative are available from Xerox University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106...
...Within hours Chicago's Consumers' Emergency Investigating Unit (CEIU) was on the scene, but to little avail ~Mrs...
...In Hinsdale, Illinois, a ground hog living just off the l]linois Tollway was reported shot by irate truckers...
...Hartke, who has been affectionately tagged as "the Jackass of the Senate," struck out when his suit to exempt members of Congress from airport searches was dismissed out of hand, and Mr...
...Tyrrell...
...Nixon's forces were turned back 410 to 4, indicating a discernible mushiness in the Administration's support in the lower chamber...
...and threatened mayhem upon her unless Mr...
...Wholesale prices soared at a 37.2 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate...
...Spiro Agnew met with success, it having become obvious that in a country like the United States such armed security is utterly unnecessary and uneconomical...
...9 o n February 4 Mz...
...And that plan for castrating rapists was rejected in the Georgia Senate by a vote of 33 to 19...
...One year subscriptions (nine issues) cost $6.00, and all correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, etc...
...Contributors: Paul Bernstein, Frank W. Blatchford III, Ron Docksai, J.P...
...As this magazine goes to print, details for ransoming Miss Hearst are being worked qut between her father and six public-spirited radical groups that have agreed, ever so hesitantly, to serve as negotiators and recipients of the Hearst ransom money...
...The pathologist who performed the autopsy stated that the effect of Mr...
...Back in the States, Mrs...
...Robert K. Preston became the first American ever to lead an aerial assault on the Presidential Palace...
...Nixon's performance in and around the White House has risen 3 percent, unfortunately there were less palmy indicators for the Administration to muse upon...
...Originally published on restroom walls, only since 1967 has it come under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it monthly October through June...
...In Imndon, Mr...
...Executive Secretary: Sally A. Mulholland...
...Alien Contributors: Eric Brodin, Carl Miller, Judy Tyrrell...
...9 Predappio, Italy, witnessed one of the most dastardly acts ever committed in that famous city when a cowardly fiend made off in the dark of the night with two offering boxes from the tomb of Mr...
...On the other hand the struggles of two of America's leading political liberals, Rupert Vance Hartke and Vincent A. Hill, for the preservation and dilation of American freedom received stunning setbacks...
...his most recent book is Violence and the Verbal Class . . . Steven F i n e r is a Ph.D...
...Basil Brown became the world's first victim of carrot juice addiction...
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...After sixty-four years of dominance over the distrier, Republicans were mauled by Mr...
...Nixon was of course floating in Key Biscayne with his distinguished chum, Mr...
...And in Berkeley, public health officials closed the Rolling River Health Foods Shoppe when as yet unidentified bacteria growing on a shelf of oatmeal bread began grabbing customers...
...William Randolph Hearst, Jr...
...9 Perhaps it is another example of the confusion brought to Washington by the Watergate scandals, but Professor G. Etzel Pearch's visionary proposal to recast the map of America into thirty-eight renamed states is hopelessly flummoxed in red tape...
...9 Finally some twenty-four hours after his arrest in Moscow, Mr...
...Benite Mussolini, the former Italian statesman and efficiency expert...
...And in Washington, D.C., the ground hog apparently saw his shadow, but was unable to distinguish it from the other shadowy figures that abound in those envirora% for the city was promptly blanketed in its worst snow fall since the Harding Administration...
...Randy Steven Pigg r e f u ~ to marry him until he changed his name to the more elegant name of Kendric...
...Little is known about the SLA save that its selfstyled information officer, Mrs...
...Nancy Ling Perry, was once a topless blackjack dealer in San Francisco and an orange juice squeezer at a Berkeley juice bar...
...In a vote extending broad power to the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigation, Mr...
...Associates: David Brudnoy, Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr., D.W...
...The English scientist, who was known to ingest almost one million units of Vitamin A per day, collapsed in a Imndon produce market...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian author, was flown to West Germany in the first known case of forcible exile from Russia since Leon Trotsky...
...Co,.ti FEBRUARY 1974 AND across the width and breadth of America a concerned citizenry celebrated Ground-hog Day...
...Plunkitt, Peter J. Rusthoven, C. Bascom Slemp, Mark Souder, David Tudor, Wayne H. Valis, Richard Wheeler, Timothy J. Wheeler A R T I C L E S 5 Harvey C. Mansfield, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Defending L i b e r a l i s m 5 9 A. Lawrence Chickering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C a l i f o r n i a ' s P r o p o s i t i o n One 9 12 Maurice F r i e d b e r g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S o l z h e n i t s y n and t h e S o v i e t D i s s e n t e r s 12 13 Timothy J . Wheeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Energy Crisis Is Not a Crisis 13 15 J a c q u e l i n e Kasun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Four Myths of P o v e r t y and Unemployment 15 24 P e t e r Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vietnam R e v i s i t e d 24 D E P A R T M E N T S 2 The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Special E d i t o r i a l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert S t e a r n s 4 8 L e t t e r from a Whig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Bascom Slemp 8 22 The P u b l i c P o l i c y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P e t e r J . Rusthoven 22 23 The T a l k i e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin S t e i n 23 24 The Bootblack S t a n d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Washington P l u n k i t t 24 27 The G r e a t American Saloon Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aram Bakshian, J r . 27 28 Brudnoy's I n d e x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Brudnoy 28 29 C u r r e n t Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assorted J a c k a s s e s 29 30 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seifert, Wagstatt, Reynolds, e t a...
...in international relations in the nation's capital . . . J a e - q u e l i n e Kasun is in the department of economics at Humbolt State University in California . . . Harvey C. Mansfield, J r . is in the department of government at Harvard . . . W. Wesley McDonald teaches at the University of Baltimore . . . P e t e r J . Rusthoven is studying law at H a r v a r d . . . J . Whitney S t i l l m a n recently received an A.B...
...Finally a tale of singular sepulchral grimness comes from Fort Lauderdale where local beach boy, Sudsie Sautier, died violently on a beach after consuming a pound of unpopped popcorn, two quarts of beer and then stretching out in the sun...
...Finally that lonely struggle of California's Congressman Moss to end Secret Service protection of Mr...
...He would have been nineteen in June...
...Duggan, David Friedman, Jerry Gerde, John Kelly, W. Wesley McDonald, Robert McTiernan, Jeffrey M. Nelson, Gary North, Terry O'Rourke, G.W...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...Hill, a city council candidate in Santa Maria, California, whose sole issue is to legalize marijuana, was sent to the hoosegow for possession...
...George Nathan...
...Rolling River officials promised to consider putting preservatives in future loaves...
...Brown's enormous intake of Vitamin A and carrot juice was indistinguishable from alcoholic poisoning...
...Americana Editor: P.D...
...Vincent Ostrowski of Chicago, Illinois, was beaten to death by the fins of a washing machine when her bra strap beck_me entangled in the drum...
...Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin---and yes, sex, even sex...
...Egil (Bud) Krogb became the first of Mr...
...Sakharov, the Times has described as a "twentieth century scientific liberal," and Mr...
...canContributors didate at Boston University . : . Maurice F r i e d b e r g is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Indiana University...
...Assistant Managing Editor: Joyce Goldberg...
...9 Back in Washington, Pfc...
...Nixon's law-~mdorder energumens to go to jail...
...There seems little likelihood that the proposal will be adopted in this session of Congress, though the University of California geography professor persuasively argues that the savings to state government alone would amount to $4.6 million...
...The fiancee of Mr...
...9 A Gallup Poll did indicate that support for Mr...
...Whether it will insure the President's life is still dubious...
...should be sent to The Alternative, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
...2 The Alternative April 1974 Publisher: Baron Von Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club...
...And while on the subject of shadowy figures, the President unveiled a $300 billion budget, a prodigy of shadowy figa~re,, ~md slithering proposals that remindeo one pundit of a kind of gigantic life insurance policy...
...And unexpected move by San Francisco policemen pleasantly surprised anxious civil libertarians when police refused to close one of that enlightened city's most advanced cultural attractions, its encounter parlors...
...Art: Gustave Dord, Eric Lohnaas...
...Hearst provided California's needy with $400 million of victuals...
...Richard F. VanderVeen, a political ne'erdo-welT who had lost every race he had ever entered, including the Saginaw County sack race...
...30 R E V I E W S 18 J . Whitney S t i l l m a n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S e x u a l S u i c i d e 18 19 David Brudnoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Four Reforms 19 20 John Caravan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Children o f Darkness 20 26 W. Wesley McDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Conservative Mind 26 28 Steven F i n e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Th/s B e a t s Working f o r a L i v i n g 28 &/Ms &/~/~ &V//~k/MMK& Y/AAAAAAAA Y/AAAAAAAA Y/AAAAAAA/~V/~k/~ & ~VAk/~& & V &&&/A &/~/~ Aram Bakshian, J r . is a speechwriter for the White H o u s e . . . David Brudnoy iq visiting professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, a commentator with WNAC-TV (CBS) and WBGH-TV (PBS), and an associate of The A l t e r n a t i v e . . . John Caravan is an American residing in Paris where he is at work on a study of John Dos Passos . . . A. Lawrence C h i e k e r i n g , once general counsel for the California State Office of Economic Opportunity, is now executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Studies...
...Congratulations are in order for Mr...
...Fortunately, the President's daughter, Julie, had earlier undergone emergency surgery in Indianapolis, so her mother and her husband were not in the executive mansion when Mr, Preston's helicopter arrived...
...Solzhenitsyn moved to a temporary residence in Zurich,speculation grew as to if and when the Soviets would release the author's family and files...
...Later in the month, after Mr...
...On February 21 another idealistic group, the American Revolutionary Army, kidnapped the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Mr...
...Less serious but equally lively speculation arose in America concerning how the New York Times would finally describe the philosophical position of this deeply religious advocate of traditional Russian life...
...The former White House aide whose imaginative anxieties about security had induced him to lead a mysterious White House cabal, since dubbed "the plumbers," left for jail just days after an obscure social justice organi7,-~tion in California, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), spirited off the daughter of Mr...
...Lysander Small of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, who, after bungling suicide attempts that entailed shooting himself in the head, slashing his wrists, ingesting overdoses of sleeping pills, and throwing himself into an oncoming train, finally accomplished his life's ambition by imbibing a copious draught of hydrochloric acid...
...Medvedev is a "reform-minded Marxist-Leninist" but how to describe an anticommtm]st whose first public act in Switzerland was a visit to Mass...
...9 Women's Liberation continues to work marvels...
...Senior Editors: Terry Krieger, William Kristol, Rev...
...And Administration strategists are still perplexed by an apparent setback in the race for Vice President Gerald Ford's seat...
...Buds of cultural freedom were even seen in Spain where the supreme court held the possession of Playboy magazine tasteless but licit...
...in history from Harvard . . . C. Bascom Slemp is The A l t e r n a t i v d s chief Washington correspondent . . . Robert S t e a r n s is a Harvard undergraduate . . . Benjamin S t e i n is a free-lance writer residing in Washington, D.C . . . . Timothy J . Wheeler, an associate of The A l t e r n a t i v e , is editor of the F i n a n c i a l Book Digest The Alternative was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in McSorley's Old Ale House...
...Cooper, John R. Coyne, Jr., James Grant, Peter Hughes, Joseph A. Morris, Roger D. Tyrrell...
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...Preston, a hauntingly articulate helicopter mechanic, cormmandeered a "Huey" helicopter from Maryland's Tipton Airfield and began a daring two-hour flight to Washington (a trip generally taking 15 minutes) which ended when his craft was brought down on the White House's south lawn in a hail of shotgun pellets and weird music...
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...If clients wish to pay a bit more, nude hostesses will talk back to them, and the more intellectually gifted hostesses will even read from pornographic books...
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