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That is the theory underlying two recent Nixon satires. I mile de Antonio's video production Milhouse and An Evening with Richard Nixon, a theater piece by Gore Vidal. These "comedies" do more than avoid disentangling the real Nixon from his popular caricature--the self-repressed, ambitious, and self-righteous liar. They construct a semi-comic figure entirely from Nixon's own words. In this sense, they are black comedy. Our laughter barely hides our disgust. It is the President of the United States, not an impersonator, who seems ludicrous. Our sense of his ineptitude only underscores our disbelief...
Like a heat-seeking missile, Eleanor is drawn to burning issues. This past summer, she spotted a young man carrying a large anti-McGovern poster in a San Antonio crowd...
Feasible Alternatives. Another provision of the Highway Act has even more serious implications. San Antonio, Texas, has long yearned for a new 9.7-mile highway link between Interstate 34 and Interstate Loop 410. Engineers have routed the asphalt swath right through some of the city's least built-up land, which unfortunately includes about 250 acres of the heavily used Brackenridge and Olmos Basin public parks. Aroused local conservationists, while arguing unsuccessfully for another, more expensive route for the road, successfully stymied the project in court. For one thing, the proposed road violates the Transportation Act, which bans federally...
...Golfrey Connally, 53, is a liberal economics professor at Texas' San Antonio College. He is also the younger brother of former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who now heads Democrats for Nixon. Golfrey and Brother John do not see eye to eye on the presidential campaign. "Nixon," says Golfrey Connally, "is a master of the art of manipulation?equating patriotism with support of his policies. By implication, critics are subversives." Nixon understands the public fear of dramatic change, says Golfrey Connally, "but there is no alternative to coming to grips with the complex issues...
Died. Eugene A. Valencia, 51, World War II Navy air ace; of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he was attending a convention of American Fighter Aces. In 1945, Lieut. Valencia led a four-man team that destroyed 50 airborne Japanese planes in a three-month period without suffering any losses or damage. He was personally credited with bagging a record 7½ planes in a single day, scored a total of 23 kills, and was awarded the Navy Cross for his action in the South Pacific...