The Continuing Crisis
Cor,tinuing Crisis MARCH, and that peculiarly acquired American appetite for apocalypse--an appetite already whetted by Vietnam, student demonstrations, poverty crusades, assassinations,...
...And in New York, Senator James L. Buckley revved up the forces of repression when ages of five and eighteen years, but they now are actually searching out the young actors in Mr...
...Johnson, a new journalist who co-edited The New Journalism with Mr...
...Chastising students for their concern "with petty problems," he reminded them that he "had been concerned with space wars" and hurled a handsomely crafted ax at the head of a nearby student...
...Nevertheless Senator James L. Buckley chose to eliminate one of the apocalyptists' sources of anxiety when on March 19 he asked the President to resign in an act "at once serving the greater interests of the nation, the institution of the Presidency, and the stated goals for which he so successfully campaigned...
...Boyer's advanced skits...
...m Earlier in the month Representative Wilbur D. Mills predicted Mr...
...Brewster that you learned of his patriotic and generous gesture in these pages...
...Uncomprehending authorities later took Mr...
...Reginald Murphy (a "notorious pointy-head"), Mr...
...Neither the ACLU nor the AAUP has yet to take action, but on the campus, tension can be perceived...
...Jake Lauderdale of Dallas, Texas, who paid $3,000 ransom for the release of his wife, Lillie Wilma, only to discover that she had never been kidnapped at all...
...Further indications that America is slipping back into an era of puritanism were spotted by sharp-eyed civil libertarians in White Plains where twenty-eight year-old Brian Fielding, a talented football coach in the Pop Warner League whose fondness for children has touched many young hearts, was indicted on fifty-two counts of sexual abuse and sodomy...
...Williams reminds his fellow Americans that such figures as Angela Davis and the Black Panthers have been aided by public contributions from "fat cat liberals," and he begs for support in his defense...
...In a truly affecting .public statement t h e idealistic Mr...
...While two men trepanned him for the ransom by telling him his wife was in their possession, Mrs...
...No one knows how many of the youngsters were invited or how many still intend to participate, but many Republicans are popping mad...
...At this writing streaking has occurred in Japan, South Korea, France, and Canada...
...Sergeant William F. McGill of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department reports that some as yet unknown scoundrels sent out lavish invitations and brochures inviting thousands of high school bands to compete in a bogus "President's All-American Festival of Champions" May 15-18...
...m The citizenry has an intrepid Newsweek reporter to thank for exposing yet another chilling raid on the federal treasury...
...It is a constitutional anomaly not visited upon these shores since the Hon...
...Finally from Ronald Reagan's California comes the rumor that several chapters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have complained about the possible abuse of dogs, horses, reptiles, and other household pets in pornographic movies featuring Linda Lovelace and Georgina Spliven...
...Back in Washington Mr...
...William A.H...
...m An attempt was made on the person of Princess Anne, and in Barcelona, Spain, a nineteen-year-old Danish sailor, attempting to "defend myself from the many monsters surrounding me," beheaded fifteen models in a waxworks museum while brandishing a sword and wearing a crown...
...And in that same great state, administrators at Indiana State University dismissed mathematics teacher Max W. Lynch for insisting on reading the Bible in his classroom...
...m It appears that in Washington it is "dirty tricks" as usual, for a cruel hoax has been perpetrated on high school bands across the country...
...Williams' hopes for just treatment rest in his hands...
...The Ervin Committee could be back in business again any day...
...But it has been introduced in its most advanced manifestation at the University of Georgia where five streakers parachuted from a Cessna 182...
...Johnson into custody...
...Tom Wolfe, delivered an informative, if controversial, lecture in which he mentioned that it was he who killed John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Charles DeGaulle...
...Patricia Hearst indicated continued obduracy on the part of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small California-based social justice organization...
...Lauderdale was actually shopping for gloves and a hat to wear while gardening...
...NOW he has been forced to make a public appeal for funds...
...By the middle ~)f the month it appeared that the phenomenon had spread to Rio de Janeiro when twenty-two bucknaked passengers stepped from a bus into the arms of the local constabulary...
...Will perfidy never cease...
...m Indiana University was the scene of another attempt to make higher education relevant...
...Robert F. Drinan, a man rumored tobe the Holy Ghost's personal Washington lobbyist...
...To students in J610, Mass Media and Mass Culture, Mr...
...1,000 did it at the University of Georgia...
...creative young journalists at City College and at the University of Colorado, 1,200 had a little harmless fun in their irrepressible student newspaper...
...m In Atlanta, Grant Park Zoo officials divulged t h a t Fred, a pygmy rattlesnake, died of his own poison when he bit himself on the lip while downing a mouse...
...Williams, patriot...
...Nixon's resignation would come once a full congressional committee report on his taxes became public...
...Ben Butler and his illustrious band attempted to lay low the fiend Johnson back in 18 and 68...
...600 did it in Columbia, Missouri...
...Their elegantly witty depiction of a nun masturbating with a crucifix not only elicited how!~ from that city's philistines but also a ter'ifying riposte from the college president...
...The naked bus riders had been robbed...
...m Harold Wilson became Prime Minister of England for the second time, and thousands of young adventurers began running around naked all over the world...
...Williams Emergency Defense Fired," in care of President Kingman Brewster, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and you may tell Mr...
...Williams now languishes as a political prisoner in a Georgia hoosegow bereft of the faintest hope for competent counsel or reasonable bail...
...Nixon applied himself to his presidential duties even as seven of his erstwhile advisors were arraigned, in the words of Newsweek, "like common criminals"--a striking simile coming from a newsweekly that only recently has shown such disrelish for criminals...
...The unfortunate youth was booked for public intoxication...
...bution site...
...Meanwhile there were at least four other kidnappings throughout the country, not including the singular misfortune of Mr...
...And, down in Atlanta, on runs the sad "saga of Mr...
...One fellow did it aboard a Boeing 747 headed for London...
...Cor,tinuing Crisis MARCH, and that peculiarly acquired American appetite for apocalypse--an appetite already whetted by Vietnam, student demonstrations, poverty crusades, assassinations, inflation, and Lyndon's exit-beheld its most extravagant feast yet the impeachment of a president...
...The Hearst food give-away ran into difficulties when some of the thousands of starving Californians balked at the quality of the viands, and a Hearst truck carrying some sixty thousand dollars of food was hijacked only a few miles from its distri...
...Checks may be sent to the '~V.A.H...
...But what had, on the face of it, appeared to be collection of 500,000 pornographic pictures Latin America's first mass streak was acof some one hundred children between the tually just another bit of revolutionary politicking...
...Whatever the import of these arcane predictions, Representative Peter Rodino's House Judiciary Committee is tuning-up its whistles and bells for impeachment--and let us not forget that particular committee boasts such virtuosi as Jerome R. Waldie, John Conyers, Jr., Charles Rangel, Elizabeth Holtzman, and the Rev...
...On March 18 that public-spirited journal courageously revealed that Mr...
...m Kidnapping increased across the country as did the woes of the Randolph Hearst family...
...The phenomenon came to be called streaking and can be distinguished from the bawdy vagaries of your run-of-the-mill mental defective in that a) the subject usually is enrolled in an institution of higher learning, and b) he moves rapidly through a public place, he does not dawdle, leer, or fondle himself...
...During the month tape recordings of Ms...
...Charged with the abduction of Mr...
...Spiro T. Agnew is actually bilking the country of $44 per,month, for he has quietly received permission to park his car in a government garage while he classifies his vice-presidential papers...
...Whether Mr...
...Nixon's international humiliation will satisfy the palates of America's connoisseurs of crisis is dubious, for there will remain poverty, starvation, racism, sexism, rampant injustice, and the melting of the polar cap over which to agonize...
...Intolerance of unorthodox lifestyles has spread to Chicago where police not only arrested forty-nine-year-old Robert Boyer for ,maintaining a torture chamber, a model electric chair, a five-foot square cage, a dungeon-type cell, and a ecdysiasts raced and wheezed across campus...
...No complaint was registered with the police...
Vol. 7 • May 1974 • No. 8
