The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis - From the bustle of a typical American commercial boulevard one steps briskly into a hushed parlor, wherein well-dressed and bloodless figures drift through a solemn ambience of occasional murmurs...
...In years gone by House members waited until the launching of the new Congress to reorganize themselves in their party caucuses, but so exhilarating are the vapors of goody-goody ism now wafting through our famous capital, that as early as December the new Democratic congressional delegation went right to work heaving up prodigious reforms...
...During the last weeks of the General Assembly's session, several delegates from emerging nations began turning up in their cups, an excuse that could not be claimed by the abstemious Moslems who nonetheless indulged some bizarre vagaries...
...on almost every vote, several of which contradicted the international organization's charter, the distinguished delegates handed the U.S...
...In fact so moronic has behavior at the UN become that, by contrast, the public utterances of Uganda's daft President, Idi Amin, appear positively reasonable...
...a higher bill for 1975...
...Philistinism triumphs...
...And so we leave the American body politic, circa 1974, to its well-wishers: the liberals, the radicals, the progressives, the journalists—the goody-goodies...
...One feels an urgent revulsion in the maw and rushes for an exit...
...if The United Nations became a bit of an embarrassment during the month...
...As the month began the civilized few were still slapping their knees at the ceremonious withdrawal from the Democratic presidential race by Minnesota's Senator Walter F. Mondale, a man who had for months insisted he was not even in the race...
...One is Mr...
...The National Basketball Association freshman is, in the words of his financial advisor, "considering a life style that pleases him—participating with nature," a cryptic statement, giving rise to speculation that the boy genius may soon forsake the glories of the hard wood floor for a career in militant nudism...
...Reusch will campaign as the official candidate of the Ku Klux Klan...
...It is official...
...and the forces of darkness, the conservatives...
...U Thant, a former UN Secretary-General and editor of Norman Cousins' World magazine...
...The University of Detroit has announced that Father Daniel Berrigan, a folk hero of the late 1960s, will teach something or other during the winter term...
...The pastel walls of this capacious room are dotted with bland pictures of sanitary, idyllic scenes...
...They denatured his once-powerful committee, hounded him from its chairmanship, and—in an ominous act of police repression that sent a chill through the intellectual community—the forces of know-nothingism arrested his current prodigy, Miss Fanne Fox, for "indecent exposure of the sexual organs by going naked in a public or private place...
...Miller's customs of wearing suspenders to suggest high-waisted striped pants and "kissing women on the cheek" while "whispering a bit of Biblical scripture in their ears" had become intolerable to right-thinking liberals...
...Carl Pierce took four hundred dollars from a Columbus, Ohio grocery store and leapt into a waiting getaway car where he discovered that vandals had slashed his tires...
...Amin has suggested that the United Nations move to Uganda for the compelling reason that then the world body would be "geographically located in the heart of Africa and the world...
...Apparently Uncle Joe was sixty-three years ahead of his time...
...Not ten years ago the goody-goodies were composing dithyrambs to youth, to their more open life styles, their shedding of inhibitions, and their ardor for creativity...
...Then too there is the case of Congressman Wilbur D. Mills (D.-Ark...
...now pays 25 percent of the annual UN costs and up to 40 percent of the budgets of some of its agencies...
...In recent years Mr...
...The ever-changing world of the progressive or the liberal or the sainted or whatever the political goody-goodies now call themselves continues to amuse and to edify, as each new crusade contradicts its predecessor...
...Not surprisingly the Democratic Caucus has cashiered the infamous Mr...
...The other is Georgia's Governor Jimmy Carter, who feels that his irresistible qualification for the Presidency is that he has no influential political or financial support whatsoever...
...It was supposedly the season to be jolly, but Vancouver's voters were not amused when Mr...
...So mortified was he that he expired from a heart attack...
...Yet when the hitherto staid chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee began listening to the beat of a different drummer they fell on him in a McCarthyite fury...
...The U.S...
...Tiny Tim's wife, Victoria, and heir, Tulip, are on relief in New Jersey and living in London...
...From the bustle of a typical American commercial boulevard one steps briskly into a hushed parlor, wherein well-dressed and bloodless figures drift through a solemn ambience of occasional murmurs and sickeningly sweet fragrances...
...Dean Maxwell fired three blasts pointblank into the face of a rich and powerful liquor store proprietor only to discover that his gun was seriously malfunctioning and that one bullet had lodged in his own right foot...
...It is raised several feet from the floor and surrounded by a semicircle of unpleasant floral monstrosities...
...Charles G. (Bebe) Rebozo's bank was robbed, and Mr...
...The war against crime had some gorgeous moments, as when holdup artiste Mr...
...A distraught President Idi Amin of Uganda announced that he would personally take over from his beautiful foreign minister, "the willowy" Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya, a former model and actress whom he deposed after she allegedly "made love to an unknown European" in a restroom at Orly Airport near Paris...
...The Hon...
...Apparently he intends to be the first presidential candidate ever to campaign in a Halloween costume...
...How different his life might have been had he campaigned south of the border, where two more nuts have entered the 1976 presidential marathon...
...He finished last and snuffled back into Vancouver's wee bohemia...
...Fishbait) Miller, for twenty-seven years the powerful House doorkeeper and a reminder of the evil past...
...When they were done they had left the infamous Ways and Means Committee looking like a plucked chicken and they had liberalized and reformed, modernized and revitalized, the power of the Speaker of the House until it looked like nothing so much as...well nothing so much as the fiefdom of Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker whom progressives brought low in 1911...
...Miller's conqueror was the disbursing clerk who handles House paychecks and expense accounts...
...Nelson Rockefeller will be serving his country as Vice President, but there is still considerable uncertainty regarding the future of the thoughtful, profoundly concerned, Mr...
...After thumbing its nose at the U.S...
...After the 150-to-77 vote an exultant Representative Phillip Burton (D.-Calif...
...allowed as how "The winds of change have reached the House of Representatives," a judgment rendered somewhat dubious when it was divulged that Mr...
...possibly he will campaign only at night...
...Bill Walton...
...Economic woes notwithstanding there was some reason for cheer at the year's end...
...Vincent Trasov, artist, campaigned for mayor dressed as a peanut and reiterating the slogan "people are .as ready for one nut as for the next...
...The frames are fabulously tawdry as are the corpulent pieces of rococo furniture, which slump against the walls and look out on the herd that now mills before a long box with enormous nickel handles...
...Dale Reusch, an employee of a Lodi, Ohio Ford plant and a patriot...
...We betake ourselves to a local saloon and...prosit...
...Some idiot's shoes are squeaking...
...Reformers made an auspicious beginning in cleaning up the nefarious regime of Emperor Haile Selassie when they shot the nation's sixty college-educated politicians and administrators...
...In Rangoon, Burma body snatchers ferreted off the body of Mr...
...Where non-Africans would be allowed to reside after such a move the enlightened despot did not reveal...
Vol. 8 • February 1975 • No. 5
