The Continuing Crisis
"The Continuing Crisis" FOR THE LAST four weeks the American language has taken the most dreadful thumping visited upon it in years as thousands of dirty-necked politicians twisted, stretched, and stomped it in their...
...Goff passed on just seconds after concluding an impassioned address with the problematic line "I have just swallowed my false teeth...
...In fact the atrocities committed in the last month by various Solons and Nuinas, Bayhs and Javitses have left many useful words of yesteryear so mutilated and pathetic that they are now utterly incomprehensible, even to noted linguists, and it is only a matter of time before such political junk as integrity, candor, liberal, conservative, public interest, and inflation are actually retired from the dictionaries or scaled down to the status of mere slang...
...One of France's most illustrious chefs, M. Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, did die...
...Berit Lemoge has become the department's first pregnant police officer, and in Washington, D.C...
...On a happier note Mr...
...In giving the old heave ho to those who had supported Mr...
...The abominations culminated on November 5 when the lowest voter turnout since 1946 straggled into the polls and demonstrated once again the principal defect of our democratic contraption, to wit, one pack of scoundrels can be voted out only at the expense of voting another pack in...
...He printed one thousand handbills advertising the opening of a new brothel—at Mrs...
...On the other hand, the news is not all bad, for October's unemployment rate was up to only 6 percent, and environmentalists were cheered by the news that automobile sales were down by 20 to 30 percent from a year ago...
...William J. Harmon, 52, who arrived in Binghamton, New York in March of 1973 to be feted for his patriotic service as a P.O.W...
...Sirica's descants on his embarrassing philosophy of life, the tactics employed by various participants, and the inconvenience of those normal rules of evidence so revered by lesser jurists like Mr...
...Mr...
...Blaruf's address—and distributed them on Istanbul streets...
...Richard Nixon almost died...
...Al Green suffered second-degree burns and the loss of a very close friend when Miss Mary Woodson hurled a banquet of hot grits on him as he bathed and thereupon shot herself, a senseless and tragic act that left Mr...
...In Los Angeles a heart attack ended the speaking career of feminist theoretician Ms...
...Brandeis...
...Bronfman has testified that though he appreciated sexual relations with Lady Caroline "at least twenty-five times" before their marriage, he enjoyed but "a very brief kiss" thereafter—apparently the case hinges on a question of implied warranty...
...Finally from Egypt come disturbing reports that the controversial Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has been seen wearing a bathrobe and riding a camel in the vicinity of the pyramids, a posh neighborhood inhabited mainly by rich and retired Egyptian politicians...
...Despite the growls and sonorities of Congress and the pithy slogans of President Gerald R. (Jerry) Ford, the Consumer Price Index jumped 1.2 percent in September...
...Millicent Goff...
...The Watergate coverup trial continues in Judge John J. Sirica's Washington courtroom, a courtroom unique in the history of American jurisprudence...
...Green's bathroom in a shambles...
...Edward (Teddy) Kennedy was fined $200 and had her driver's license suspended for six months after she pleaded guilty to charges of driving under the influences of Demon Rum...
...The index is now soaring at 12.1 percent above its level a year ago, its largest twelve-month jump since 1947...
...It is surrounded by deadbeats who shower debris, contumely, and spittle on defendants and other notables as they enter and leave...
...And the consumer lobby has turned its attention to the New York court where Mr...
...Ismail Arduc, an Istanbul judge, broke into uncontrollable laughter, ending the hearing with an ancient Turkish oath which roughly translated means "Go eat a mountain of red Jello...
...He was sentenced to six months in the slammer for impersonating a serviceman...
...And the jig is up for Mr...
...And it is evident that Turkey remains even more arctic toward equality than the United States...
...Its court transcript flows with the testimony of such reformed liars as Mr...
...In Reading, Pennsylvania, electric company officials are still hoo hawing Mr...
...For women's liberation there was good news and bad news...
...Kennedy from a manslaughter charge...
...Ronald Clark O'Bryan of Deer Park, Texas is accused of putting cyanide in his son's Halloween loot, and a "minor argument" at a Cleveland, Ohio birthday party eventuated in the untimely demise of five participants who, so to speak, had their candles blown out by a .30 caliber automatic carbine...
...he was felled by- a heart attack as he buttered his bread...
...When Mrs...
...In Boston, Senator Edward M. (Teddy) Kennedy broke his five-year silence in granting the Boston Globe an uneventful interview on Chappaquiddick, from which the Globe concluded: 1) during the inquest and trial perjury may have been committed, 2) Mr...
...Pop singer Mr...
...The bad news comes from Los Angeles and Turkey...
...And the oft sniffed-at best seller I'm OK, You're OK seems destined for a more serious critical reading now that word has seeped into literary circles that author Thomas Harris recently paid $50,000 to a woman who had accused him of keeping her as a mistress, enthralled by drugs, liquor, and rubber novelties...
...Inaficir Blaruf complained that her civil rights had been imposed upon by her son-in-law, Mr...
...Nixon's deficit spending and economic controls the American voter had to install those who will support more deficits, more controls, and a national health care monstrosity...
...Spiro Agnew's letter of resignation has been stolen, and in Bloomington, Indiana The Alternative magazine, a journal read mainly by rich American landowners, awarded the Harold Robbins Award for the Worst Book of the Year to Test of Loyalty: Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals of Secret Government by Mr...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger returned from an eighteen-day tour of seventeen countries, and annouced yet another "wheat deal" this time with Egypt...
...Holmes or Mr...
...In New York City the King Kong Watermelon went out of business as did South Africa's Joseph W. Pritchard, 73, the world record holder in donating blood-200 pints in his lifetime...
...In San Francisco Mrs...
...Inflation continues to defy the American political process...
...The astounding amplitude of Mr...
...Kennedy definitely lied at the inquest, and 3) it was only "inept prosecution and preferential treatment" that saved Mr...
...Steven Talevi crawled 5.73 miles around a soccer field to break the world record for the event, and Mrs...
...FOR THE LAST four weeks the American language has taken the most dreadful thumping visited upon it in years as thousands of dirty-necked politicians twisted, stretched, and stomped it in their frantic scrambles for the public trough...
...Nelson Rockefeller's beneficences continued to be revealed, and Mr...
...E. Howard Hunt, Mr...
...Enter as good news reports from the police departments of San Francisco and Washington, D.C...
...Jeb Stuart Magruder, and the intrepid Mr...
...Sirica promises that such impediments as evidence will not interfere with his judgments...
...Mrs...
...Kathryn Saddier (pronounced sT-dyn) had her kitchen sink stolen while she pickled grasshoppers in the basement of her Fort Worth, Texas home...
...In his deposition Mr...
...John W. Dean...
...Edgar Bronfman asks for the annulment of his marriage to Lady Caroline Townshend...
...In Oneonta, New York Mr...
...And its walls increasingly echo with Mr...
...Peter Schrag...
...Wilfred Heckman's story that he has used the same light bulb on his porch for forty-one years...
...and to marry within ninety-six hours a nubile Binghamton widow...
...Miss Gail A. Cobb has become the first female police officer to be slain in the line of duty...
...Blaruf's complaint stemmed from her son-in-law's ferocious response to her thoughtful suggestions for marital equality...
Vol. 8 • January 1975 • No. 4
