The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis - How different Americans are, especially during a very dry summer. In Spain, when Chief of State Generalissimo Francisco Franco came down with phlebitis he gladly passed the reins of government to a...
...Rodriguez suffered two broken legs, various broken bones, a punctured lung, an enormous medical bill, and the loss of considerable esteem among his colleagues at the Oakland Sanitary Department...
...Otto Kerner, the former Federal Judge and Governor of Illinois began a three-year prison term on July 29th and former Secretary of the Treasury John Connally was indicted on July 31st by a Watergate Jury on charges of having accepted a bribe, committing perjury, and conspiring to obstruct justice...
...On July 15th talk-show host Miss Christine Chubbuck announced to her audience that she had a "first" for them and promptly blasted a thirty-eight-caliber bullet into her skull...
...Nixon had to deliver sixty-four tapes to Judge John J. Sirica for use in the criminal trial of Mr...
...HOW DIFFERENT Americans are, especially during a very dry summer...
...In America, when President Nixon was felled by the same malady in the Middle East, the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach him...
...Michael Robuck of Riverside, California was attempting to keep the wolf from his family's door when disaster struck...
...Indeed, so much so that five persons were killed and twelve others injured when a roisterous herd of drunken elephants departed a local moonshine still...
...Mildred Benschaff of Wadsworth, Ohio insists her brown bantam hen, Little Brownie, has passed its nineteenth year...
...After taking $61.60 and binding clerk Miss- Wanda Roberts into a tight little ball, he shot himself in the paw...
...D. R. Evans issued an indignant clarifying statement from his maximum security cell...
...Patrons can dine either at the traditional floor bowl or at tastefully appointed tables...
...In America, July 18th slipped away unadorned as hardly a soul paused to observe the fifth anniversary of Senator Teddy Kennedy's extraordinary Chappaquiddick swim...
...While robbing a supermarket he cut his foot on some glass...
...I was picked up an hour later and a mile away...
...Civil rights leader Huey Newton continues to be persecuted for his beliefs...
...Consequently, Mr...
...And in Sarasota, Florida, a progressive television station is experimenting with an exciting and useful new talk-show format...
...Richard Nixon, politician and erstwhile electronics buff, whose job security was eliminated by that myserious wave of puritanism now sweeping the very same city that made millionaires of the likes of Lyndon Johnson, Billie Sol Estes, Bobby Baker, and so many other public servants...
...An abortive coup in Cyprus led to the downfall of the infamous Greek junto and the return to Greece of democracy and Miss Melina Mercouri...
...Jesus Rodriguez encountered the same species of luck when he leaped from the Golden Gate Bridge, only to be embraced by gusting winds and smashed like a gnat into one of the many hard and uncomfortable abutments that support that famous health hazard...
...Americans forget so quickly...
...and Mrs...
...This time the young cofounder of the Black Panther party was arrested at a very tony Oakland night spot when he punched a cruising vice patrolman who refused the generous Mr...
...Yet some Americans thankfully still take an old fashioned pride in their work, and when Rhode Island newspapers erroneously reported that he had been arrested "on the spot" during a drug store break-in, professional burglar Mr...
...At this writing the players' strike continues, though their condition is becoming desperate...
...Glad tidings for nature lovers came from West Bengal, where wild life has become positively affluent...
...And then there is the specter of the NFL players' strike that has haunted the sports world through much of the summer...
...In handing down its decision on July 24th the Court drew limits on confidentiality of White House files and recognized for the first time the constitutional basis for executive privilege...
...But nature lovers in lovely Malaysia despaired when government authorities placed a bounty on the exotic North Sumatran rat, and one million of the elegant creatures succumbed within a month...
...And in Rochester, New York, a wrecking crew with the wrong address destroyed the home of Mr...
...It went no better for Miss Mama Cass Elliott...
...Just as this black cat had crossed Mr...
...It was not until August 5th that London officials exculpated her sandwich and confirmed her coronary—but by then the damage was done...
...Even worse news came from an American hospital where a remarkable greenleaf grasshopper who had crawled into the ear of violinist Irving Rosen, during the Philadelphia Orchestra's performance of Petrushka, was summarily executed by a brutal ear, nose, and throat specialist...
...Washington shot her seven times...
...In Spain, when Chief of State Generalissimo Francisco Franco came down with phlebitis he gladly passed the reins of government to a successor...
...The blossoming, economy of Mitchell, Indiana, whose main industry is school buses, began to wilt in July when the Supreme Court decided that busing to achieve racial balance could not be extended beyond city limits...
...And though the average age of a laying hen is only about two years, Mrs...
...John W. Dean III was sentenced to from one to four years for his part in the Watergate Infamy, and Mr...
...It was a summer that visited much foul luck on many homes...
...After loading the audacious young breadwinner into their car, members of the family sped off to a hospital only to be apprehended in a speed trap...
...He began the summer by traveling thither and yon on behalf of peace, but eventually had to return to Washington where the Supreme Court was hard at work on Richard M. Nixon v. United States...
...Singing sensation Mr...
...The Sweat Barons have turned a deaf ear to the demands of the players who depict their situation as not dissimilar to that of yesteryear's indentured servants...
...A more decorous atmosphere surrounded Tokyo's grand opening of "Dog Beauty," a restaurant catering solely to dogs...
...Pithily he asserted that such reports were "an affront to my professionalism and skill...
...In Chicago, Mr...
...Young Mr...
...Nixon had lied about his knowledge of and his role in the Watergate coverup...
...On August 9th Vice President Gerald Ford became President, and Americans had finally put the 1960s behind them...
...Such was the spirit that made this country great...
...Artimus Washington (no relation to the former president) and Miss Melody Sutton had another disagreement over the score of a Chicago Cubs baseball game, and, as Miss Sutton reached for her .38, Mr...
...Unfortunately, several days later she expired...
...The compassion of many college students is being awakened despite the fact that a majority of Americans see the players as ingrates and swindlers...
...I wish this article rectified and the true story told...
...While in London the 238-pound warbler and former flower child suffered the misfortune of having a fatal heart attack while solitarily munching a ham sandwich, a contretemps that gave rise to many boorish jokes regarding her controversial girth and her unscheduled departure...
...Nixon's former Assistant Presidents...
...But all this was as nothing compared to the ill luck that continued to dog Mr...
...Nixon's path the House Judiciary Committee voted out three articles of impeachment against him, setting the stage for an August 19th impeachment debate, a performance that was never to be, for by August 5th those sixty-four tapes revealed that Mr...
...In the enlightened People's Republic of China, when July 17th rolled around, the Chinese commemorated Mao Tse-tung's famed Yangtse swim with a wangdoodle of a celebration, sharing many funny anecdotes about Chairman Mao's goofball life and drinking potions...
...Sven Petersen while Mrs...
...Undaunted, he made an efficient escape, but once at home his lavish bleeding alarmed his family...
...Newton's offer of free drinks...
...Miss Sutton, who is 78, is recovering slowly...
...The drug store is next to the North Providence police station," he added proudly, "so technically I should have been caught on the spot...
...On August 9th he pled not guilty...
...The political future of Puerto Rico was cast into dubiety when Miss Jane Fonda promised to take up the cause of Puerto Rican independence...
...By August 8th the man who was at once one of the greatest and the most typical of the great presidents of this century had resigned, and the tragedy of it is that there is no indication that Washington's more adroit liars will emulate his behavior...
...John Ehrlichman is appealing his conviction for the role he allegedly played in the conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Doctor Lewis Fielding, an obscure Beverly Hills shrink...
...Petersen was visiting neighbors...
...Mr...
Vol. 8 • October 1974 • No. 1
