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When Anita Bryant's forces won in Dade County, Fla., downcast gays publicly fretted that violence would soon be coming. Violence seems to be coming, all right, but not from straights. Last month some 100 gay activists converged on a Manhattan bar where an ax was suspended from the wall with a wooden plaque beneath it labeled FAIRY SWATTER. The gays demanded that the plaque be axed-or else. It was. The next target was Attorney Adam Walinsky, a former aide to Robert Kennedy. Walinsky had written an article questioning a special law to protect homosexuals. About 50 gays...
Authorities have sent in 4,856 fire fighters, toting "Pulaskis"-a combination hoe and ax-and "McClouds"-a wide rake. On twelve-hour shifts, the crews cut brush and trees with hand tools and chain saws to bar the approaching blaze. Most find the service exhilarating. Said one woman from Santa Cruz: "It's the most exciting thing anyone...
...discharges his rage in one frenzied paragraph of violent passion in which his writing seems to be as much of a catharsis as the impeachment he writes about--"I impeached myself and exiled myself, removing myself from friends, family, and all the world, committing multiple ax murders and suicide all at the same time." And in the next paragraph Mee finally meets Haldeman, who of course turns out to be a nice guy--in fact "one of the great flat-out bores of our times...
...North Koreans] know that we realize the mistake was made by the crew in going into the DMZ. Our primary interest is in having the incident not escalate into a confrontation." This careful response contrasted sharply with President Gerald Ford's reaction to last year's ax killings of the two U.S. officers. The carrier Midway steamed into Korean waters, B-52s flew simulated bombing runs near the DMZ and U.S. troops in South Korea went on "increased alert status...
Jackson and other congressional admirers have been saving Rickover's programs-and Rickover-from the Pentagon ax since 1953. The Navy had devised a none too subtle ploy to force the crusty, cantankerous then captain into retirement by reducing him to working out of a converted ladies' room and twice passing him over for promotion. But many on Capitol Hill shared his dream of an all-nuclear fleet, no matter what the cost. At their insistence, the Navy moved him to better quarters and eventually promoted him to full admiral. Since 1965, when he reached retirement...