Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHETHER or not American politics makes strange bedfellows, it assuredly is making for active, absent ones in election year 1972. Last spring, George McGovern was flying over the Eastern seaboard in a private airplane, headed for a primary campaign stop, when a companion recognized another craft off the wing. "George," he advised, "get to the window. This may be your only chance to see Eleanor the rest of this campaign...
...processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games-can it really be a finger-shaped monster? So it appears...
...body. An ex-paratrooper from Tennessee, who was pushing narcotics in Nuevo Laredo, was suspected of the killing and dispatched with the mathematical precision that has become a trademark of the war, and particularly of the Reyes Pruneda gang. For Refugio's 30 bullets, he received 90. His companion, a U.S. Army deserter who was only interested in buying a pound of pot, was found alongside the Tennessean with 60 bullets in his body. In another grisly episode, an independent dealer was found in a clump of bushes near the Rio Grande. He had been decapitated with a machete...
Scene I: Mexico City, 1968. A gawky youngster of 18 who looks as if he could be Jerry Lewis' younger brother, perfunctorily addresses a putt. On the course beside him is his swimming coach and constant companion, Sherman Chavoor. Since the boy had recently boasted that he would become the first Olympian to win six gold medals, he needs all the relaxing he can get. Not today. A passerby happens to spot him on the green and shouts, "Hey, Jew boy, you aren't going to win any gold medals!" The brutal slur is delivered by one of the youth...
Scheduled to go on sale in September for $4.50, the Companion has apparently lifted the spirits-and egos-of some of the men who posed for it. Ex-Playboy Photographer Jeffrey Cohen has rigged his telephone with an answering device that announces that yes, he is Mr. March. Village Voice Columnist Howard Smith, who appears as Mr. November, wrote a column about his role. "I loved it. Such physical attention was a kind of gentle titillation. Being such a pure object as a photographed nude is a strange pleasure that shouldn't be monopolized by women only...