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...government crackdowns on critics from within. In 1970 a satire called Queen of the Bathtub was pressured to close after 20 performances because it dealt brutally with Israeli losses during the "war of attrition" with Egypt. "Toilet humor," growled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Three months ago an English-language lampoon called Lillit, published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel...
...Douglas tells a stunned commencement audience, "nor is Paul Freund." Honorary degrees go to miler Jim Ryus (". . .a credit to his race. . .") and City Councilman Alfred E. Velluci (". . . while a less hearty warrier could not have pursued his attempts to turn the Yard into a parking lot and the Lampoon into public favatories, he has persevered until his visions were a reality...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced its officers for 1973. They are James M. Downey '74, of Adams House and Joliet, Ill., president; Lawrence J. Siskind '74, of Lowell House and Marblehead, Ibis; Christopher L. Kyllonen '74, of Quincy House and Hanover, N.H., Narthex; Thomas R. Feran '75, of Kirkland House and Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Sanctum...
...were as surprised as you were. We would have been proud if someone on the Lampoon had thought up something as clever," President S. Eric Rayman '73 said yesterday...
However, after some prodding, candidate Edward L. Trimble '76 confessed to The Crimson that he and his cronies had used Lampoon funds to rent sound equipment. Trimble said that such a prank was the traditional fare for the last "Fool's Week" of the candidates' competition for the editorial staff...