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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom • • ROAD TO SERFDOM: Another exciting suggestion for solving New York City's contretemps, this from Robert C....
...Progressive November 1975LOOKING BACKWARDS: The Nation raises up a name to conjure with on editorial pages where there is never a dull moment—or an intelligent one: When Cyrus Eaton, America's extraordinary senior industrialist, sounds an alert, only the reckless will fail to listen...
...The second thing is probably more theoretical or egghead...
...fresh from a twoweek visit to China, said Monday that Chinese ethical standards are higher than those in the United States and, if adopted, could save this nation from destruction...
...Justice Todd, that Mr...
...Kapila the witness said he saw Mr...
...New Republic September 6, 1975 HIGH TREASON: The editors of the Progressive squirm upon being spotted fraternizin with the enemy: W have heard recently from a few devoted subscribers who worry that the occasior'al appearance of corporate advertising in the pages of this magazine may undermine The Progressive's independence and integrity...
...Chicago Tribune August 19, 1975 GOOD FRIENDS: The quality of friendship in Washington as revealed in the Nation, a family magazine for screamingmimis: Thanks to his current campaign tacticsthe nation is being exposed to the real Ford of whom his good friend Tip O'Neill has said: "Jerry is a lovely guy but maybe a lousy President...
...Hurrah for the college-educated: Vomiting establishes a bridge between the unconscious and conscious...
...If they did not dislike people, they would not exhibit, as they often do, diabolic skill in exploiting popular fears and misconceptions...
...Nation October 18, 1975 FALL FROM GRACE: One Anne Anderson of Syracuse, New York, gives evidence in the correspondence section of Time as to why Mr...
...Mwongo adminis...
...Kapila rigorously questioned the witness who made the allegation...
...Muthinja of Mukuiru sub-location...
...He left the ceremony and went to report the matter to the police...
...To have a talent for right-wing demagoguery, a politician needs to believe that people are stupid, craven, corruptible, and easily misled...
...While unwanted animals are being put to sleep all over America every day his dog is home having nine planned puppies by a champion retriever that has fathered no fewer than 410 pups already...
...Mwongo administered an oath to about 2,000 people at the home of a teacher called Mr...
...The hearing continues...
...Arunja told the court...
...Mwongo beating the he-goat and saying "May those who refuse to vote for Mwongo die like this he-goat...
...Ibrahim Gachiata...
...The witness said that as a result of the oath, he changed sides and voted for Mr...
...Jacob Mwongo was a heated subject in the High Court yesterday when the advocate for the M.P., Mr...
...I believe that an oath is a very dangerous thing...
...held the hind legs of a live he-goat against his shoulders and went round the crowd cursing those who would refuse to cast their votes for him...
...Ford has failed to pass muster with the more astute observers of the American political system: Doesn't Mr...
...The flow of energy is unique...
...Stephen Kaai, who is appearing for the petitioner, Mr...
...The witness alleged that the ceremony was conducted in the compound of the teacher's house which was surrounded by a fence...
...tered after stripping off his clothes so that it could be more binding and he was alsc among those who allegedly took the oath he told the court...
...After this, the witness went on, the M.P...
...If one acts contrary to what he has been told, he can die and the whole of his family can die...
...Percy (R.,' Ill...
...The Nairobi Standard April 23 1975 The Alternative: An American Spectator February 1976 39...
...Nation November 1, 1975 THE ART OF SOPHISTRY: Ideological cream of wheat, as served at a famous old slop house: Richard Nixon needed detente...
...Time October 20, 1975 METAPHYSICAL OBLOQUY: A scholarly descant on a nincompoop subject by the clinically insane, recorded in a journal thereof: Right-wing demagogues dislike people...
...In reply to Mr...
...Justice Simpson and Mr...
...Nation October 25, 1975 MORONS' LIB: Another astonishing moment in the moronic life of Sydney J. Harris, columnist and metaphysician: I myself can see no objection to "children's lib," any more than to women's lib or gay lib or even, for that matter, to lab lib for laboratory animals experimented on without their permission...
...I changed sides because I feared death," Mr...
...The court was told that two other naked men followed Mr...
...The animal was then slaughtered...
...Senator fresh from the exotic Orient: Sen...
...President know he is supposed to set a good example for Americans...
...New York Times July 30, 1975 RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY: The fabulous editors of the Nation characterize America circa 1968 as they repine over the present: ...no set of positive values and policies has emerged to take the place of the overt racism, anti-communism and jingoism that marked the society Cleaver once felt called upon to revolutionize...
...Euripides Current Wisdom • • ROAD TO SERFDOM: Another exciting suggestion for solving New York City's contretemps, this from Robert C. Wood: There have to be massive infusions of national and state money because cities happen to be national and state assets, and the commercial centers that New York supports between 42nd and 59th Streets and on Wall Street are things important for the nation as a whole...
...He himself was present at the oathinE ceremony which Mr...
...He had to give the Russians something that would make it worth their while to ignore such provocations as the mining of Haiphong harbor...
...Mathew Adams Karauri, the witness said the beating of a he-goatwas done during land disputes according to Meru traditions...
...Mwongo slaughter the he-goat in the home of the teacher Mr...
...Answering a question from Mr...
...The reality is that 5 per cent of the nation is now living off—and controlling—the other 95 per cent...
...Chicago Daily News April 1, 1975 MODERN THOUGHT: Enlightened musing of one of Dr...
...The Progressive's radical credentials," one reader wrote, "become highly suspect when a full five pages in the September issue are given over to dangerously deceptive advertising by General Motors and Ma Bell...
...Mwongo instead of the candidate of his choice, Mr...
...Progressive November 1975 WAVE OF THE FUTURE: What follows is an authentic reproduction of a headline appearing in the Parkersburg Sentinel, beacon of truth for all freeborn Americans of Parkersburg, West Virginia: Legislation to Provide Federal Air for New York City is Expected Soon...
...You have to see a lot of him to know how little there is to see...
...Rimungi Arunja claimed on Monday before the Chief Justice Sir James Wicks, Mr...
...In a recent telegram to the Ohio Congressional delegation, Eaton warned that unless the federal government comes to the financial rescue of New York City and State "without further delay," the nation will be plunged into the "most catastrophic economic debacle in history...
...Nation December 6, 1975 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY: Another jolt of hysteria for readers who will believe anything: The danger that confronts us is not, as President Ford suggests, that "half of the nation will be living off the other half" by the year 2000...
...High Times August-September 1975 THIRD WORLD POLITICS: From progressive Nairobi, a report on advanced electoral techniques as yet unknown even to the pols of Manhattan: An oathing ceremony allegedly conducted by the sitting Member for Nyambene South, Mr...
...At the suggestion of elders, Mr 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator February 197( Mwongo undressed and tied some banana leaves around his waist...
...Comfort's epigones in one of the more scholarly journals of the advanced Kultur...
...We have to seriously go back to Henry George and consider that the city take over ownership of city land...
...they basically despise the electorate...
...OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY: Pedagogical ruminations of a U.S...
...Muthinja...
...Parkersburg Sentinel November 14, 1975 DEPT...
...He could not do otherwise because he feared the oath dreadfully, he added...
Vol. 9 • February 1976 • No. 5
