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...case against Park or his friends in Congress. Republicans have complained-with some justification-that Democrats are far less eager to look into Koreagate, which chiefly involves Democrats, than they were to pursue Republicans implicated in Watergate. Still, as a House ethics committee staffer explains, "there is no smoking pistol." For one thing, although investigators have called more than 70 witnesses before a grand jury, they have not been able to establish whether Park was a South Korean agent; if he was, he broke U.S. law by not registering with the Justice Department, and the Congressmen may have broken...
...Georgia Governor Lester Maddox no longer sells fried chicken; now he dishes out country ham. That about sums up the hokey singing-and-comedy act that Maddox, 61, tried out on patrons of Mr. P's Supper Club in Sanford, Fla. The man who in 1964 waved a pistol at blacks who tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears...
Sophomore year, I sat in the top row and deftly employed a water-pistol during particularly tedious moments. For my junior year tests, I dropped marbles down the stairs--on the right track, but still not distracting enough. Last January, I achieved comic nirvana; I brought a slinky to finals, and started it off on the top stair, ten minutes before the three hours were up, and patiently watched those coils undulate down the steps, taking a good five minutes to get to the ground floor. I am glad that I am a senior--how could I top that, next...
...Supreme Court rules against Nixon, it will still be up to the General Services Administration to determine who can have access to the papers and tapes and under what conditions. Settling that, after other court challenges, could take months. It is not likely that Nixon's Smoking Pistol Blues, with lyrics by John Ehrlichman and arrangement by Bob Haldeman, will soon reach the disc jockey hit lists...
...does deeply respect him and reluctantly agrees. But Irina is besieged by another suitor, a man as menacing as a bayonet thrust, Staff Captain Solyony (Rene Au-berjonois), who is romantically desperate for her love. Solyony challenges the baron to a duel, and all dreams end with a pistol shot...