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...dryer, the TV set or just about anything were first whispered and then shouted through the land. The advent of the computer brought a quantum jump in dunning letters for bills already paid. Travelers swiftly spanned the oceans only to spend hours circling airports back home???and then find that their baggage had flown on to some destination of its own. At length the telephone?lifeline of American society and quintessential product of American efficiency?brought not the voices of faraway friends but strange clicks or buzzes, interminable rings, or deep, total silence. Now there is a strong feeling abroad...
...four Agnew children still live at home???Kim, 13, and Susan, 22. Susan is now dating Maryland State Trooper Colin Maclndoe, an old friend from Annapolis. The Agnews were always close to the state police, who were assigned to guard the Maryland Governor's mansion. One of the first dinner parties that the Vice President held in Washington was for the state troopers from the old palace guard. Noble Collison, a state cop with whom Judy Agnew used to play pool in the Governor's mansion, has joined Agnew's Washington staff...
Prisons will be renamed, like the one at Chino, "Institutions for Men," and will permit weekend connubial visits for the married inmates. Universities will adopt cable-television systems that will permit students to "attend" their classes at home???and, incidentally, to keep their cars from jamming the highways. There will be no letup from nude-look fashion designers, who foresee the day when it will be commonplace for women to wear only body cosmetics from the waist up. The men will continue to wear clothes?but ever flashier ones. The antiestablishmentarians who created the underground press have already been trying...
...Guide was right. After an $850,000 renovation job, he threw a dinner in Fielding's honor and at toasting time told one and all: "This was one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me." (Says the '69 Guide: "Today the Gresham is just like home???only better...
Tragic Timetable. Back home???it was now after midnight?Whitman stabbed his wife three times in the chest, apparently as she lay sleeping, and drew the bed sheet over her nude body. Then he returned to the note?partially typewritten, partially handwritten, partially printed?that was to be his valedictory. Included was a tragic timetable: "12:30 a.m.?Mother already dead. 3 o'clock?both dead." He hated his father "with a mortal passion," he wrote, and regretted that his mother had given "the best 25 years of her life to that man." Clearly, the erratic orbit...