Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perspective gained, his virginity lost. Randy struggles toward his diffident future. In an incident which is located somewhere between the two realities, somewhere between pathos and burlesque, Randy loses a foot to an errant truck on an unplowed Cambridge street. Burdened by further physical disability as well as the now familiar psychic pangs, he becomes an allegorical victim of the technological age. But he remains in touch with his now tenanted identity by cultivating new interests in candlemaking and pottery. Upon graduation Randy returns to his family home in Ipswich, Massachusetts and finds the world he once knew...
Initially, the momentum of the errant moon would have carried it beyond Venus. Then, as Venusian gravity pulled it back, it would have again sped by the planet-but this time not so far out into space. Eventually, as the tidal forces between the two bodies increased during this strange celestial courtship, the moon would have been drawn into an increasingly smaller orbit around the planet. At the same time, Venus' spin would have been greatly retarded and eventually reversed; the planet's surface would also have become searingly hot from the friction of the tidal movements...
...Army Surgeon General, though it is questionable whether he has any authority to act against them. The Justice Department could prosecute such doctors for impeding the draft or making fraudulent statements to the Government, but proving the charges might be difficult. Local medical societies can also suspend an errant member, a crushing professional blow, but much the same effect can be achieved by his colleagues' consensus that he is unreliable. Writers of truly fake statements do get that treatment...
...Cover: Cartoon in watercolor with ink, by Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine. For his first TIME cover, Drucker portrays the G.O.P.'s King Richard (1) with his trusty knight errant, Sir Spiro the Agnew (2). In New York, wearing Spiro's livery, James Buckley (3) joins Richard Ottinger (4) in assailing Charles Goodell (5), who already feels the weight of Sir Spiro's spiked mace. In the heartland of the realm, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio (6) is threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims...
President Nixon may have freed Charles Manson-not by an act of executive clemency, but by one of errant stupidity...