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Every administration has had scandals--the recent cases of Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, and Billy Sol Estes come to mind. It is safe to predict that a McGovern Administration would have a few embarrassments in its wake as well. Not that scandals are morally defendable, but experience suggests that they are politically inevitable. Old-fashioned graft at least distributes its burdens more equitably and less destructively than certain majoritarian programs which are quite legal and above-board...
Thereafter, Maurice testified, they had intercourse seven times in six months. Then sadly came the end of what he called "a good wicket." The Peeks decided to move to Spain's Costa del Sol. "At first I understood I was going with them, but later I learned that this was not the position because there was no room in their new home...
...Presidential Adviser, Jim Rowe, who had opposed Muskie's ill-fated effort in Wisconsin, were sunk in gloom over his fourth-place finish there. Clark Clifford had also been against competing in that primary, but his was a voice of optimism still. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, Businessman-Diplomat Sol Linowitz and Muskie's Maine confidant, George Mitchell, added their warnings, suggestions and views to the three-hour discussion that ended with a compromise agreement on new Muskie strategy...
...conventions of pre-film literature (the essay tells us,) Mr. Mailer invited a large group of friends, actors, actor-friends, and non-actor non-friends for a week-long party in Easthampton. There, with the use of four estates and the help of three cambers crews, the sol-disant Prisoner of Movies made a film in which "the country has become so absolutely disheveled that a movie director is running for president-and he's also making a paragraphic film at the same time." The director is named Norman T. Kingsley and is played by the director, Norman K. Mailer...
...first sour notes of Mary Sol (Sea and Sun) were struck in the airports of New York, Boston and other cities, where the charter flights could not accommodate the tribes of ticket holders. Once there, they were harassed by the scorching sun, poison ivy and voyeurs, but the kids remained largely cheerful throughout the festival, waiting in long lines for food, water and toilets. They stripped down and took to the sea, which in turn claimed three lives (two of them Puerto Rican). Although there was less evidence of drugs than usual at youth festivals, one youth was knifed...