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...certainly seemed invisible. Nixon himself appeared almost anxious to avoid the capital-weekending at Key Biscayne, summering at San Clemente. To some, his minions seemed scarcely distinguishable from one another, a solid, stolid bloc of Rotarians, Elks, safe Middle-American technicians. "Writing about the Nixon Administration," sighed Humorist Art Buchwald, "is about as exciting as covering the Prudential Life Insurance...
Claudio S. Buchwald '71 was sentenced for 30 days and fined $100 on charges of assault and battery for allegedly striking a policeman during the demonstration, a protest at the removal of a rent controlquestion from the November election ballot...
...parody is the sincerest form of flattery, TIME is flattered indeed; it has come in for more than its share of parody since its birth in 1923. Imitations have been done by such well-known writers as Wolcott Gibbs (1936) and Art Buchwald (1966), and by such distant institutions as the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (last spring). Why TIME? "It is a universally recognizable magazine, a quality essential to any successful parody," explains Lampoon Staffer Douglas Kenney. "We needed TIME'S shotgun effect to take after American society...
...Philadelphia's Delancey Place. Soon, writes Walter, Harris had collected "several thousand dollars worth" of suits, jewelry (he went for diamond and sapphire rings), an expensive Daimler automobile, credit cards, exotic birds, camera equipment. The Buck name drew well, and by 1965 the board of governors included Art Buchwald, Sargent Shriver and Mrs. William Scranton. The foundation prospered...
...picketed in favor of the "heavenly jobless." A truck driver in Boston took his St. Christopher statue off the dashboard, had his first accident in 35 years, and ruefully put it back. An international fraternity of Christopherphiles with headquarters in France reported that enrollments were climbing. Columnist Art Buchwald, a Jew, speculated that good old St. Chris topher would go right on protecting travelers, calendar or no, because he's "that kind...