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...national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes prepared alternative, apolitical episodes and let his subscribers choose...
...background as the son of a wealthy industrialist, Kreisky joined the socialist movement at age 15. After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, he fled to Sweden. Thirteen years passed before he returned home. First as a diplomat and then as Foreign Minister (1959-66), Kreisky deftly helped steer Austria on the course of political neutrality...
...assignment having to do with the Mafia or Palermo." The broken glasses turned out to have dated from 1948. Begon surfaced in Rome last week, told skeptical police that he had indeed been kidnaped by the Mafia, spirited to the U.S. and released only after he had promised to steer clear of future Mafia stories. After a brief hospitalization, Begon was hustled off to jail, formally charged with embezzlement and fabricating a crime...
...these reasons that the Looking Glass Runaway Center in Chicago attempts to steer its runaways clear of the authorities. Says Counselor Anne Fortune: "We feel it's inappropriate to report these kids, unless legally necessary, because it's usually the idea of authority that they're running away from in the first place...
...means to be a woman. In 1969 we suffered from a footlose uncertainty about the goals of Women's Liberation, so we clutched at the movement for self-definition. And we used that political identity as a crutch for a queasy feeling personal identity to hang on to and steer by. We felt plagued by our inability to define 'woman,' frustrated by the fact that we could say only what 'woman' was not. But definition limits prematurely, and I think it was precisely the de-definition that prevented Women's Liberation from solidifying into a staple. It rendered the movement...