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...announced that he will be married in a Methodist church next month to Althea Leasure, 22, who was indicted with Flynt earlier this year on charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good citizens have not exactly rolled out the welcome wagon...
...election might pit Nelson Rockefeller against Hubert Humphrey, a struggle that could only have been designed by the collaborating imaginations of R. Crumb and Karl Marx. "Big Capital squares off against Big Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union consciousness presses for its share of the surplus! The boff 'em, sock 'em bout of the century...
...WOULD AGREE the speech was remarkable--not for its insightful vision into the problems of Western democracies like the United States, but for its condescension, alarmism and hack psychologizing conspicuously cloaked in a Kissingerian veil of scholarly objectivism. These may seem like unnecessarily--and for those who know me, uncharacteristically--bitter words. But I believe Moynihan was being either intellectually dishonest or arrogantly blind, two popular Cambridge mindsets that, once revealed, should be pilloried with all the venom of a congregation of offended Puritans. My anger is sharpened by the frightening prospect of Moynihan's taking a seat...
Spiro Pavlovich allegedly pulled the veil over Harvard's eyes twice. He was accepted to Harvard Law School in 1968 after allegedly forging his academic records from Tulane University. He survived at the Law School for two-and-a-half years before being challenged...
...tried then to show that the disaster was not its fault because of "prior use and tradition," Stern annihilated that theory by showing that other Pittston dams in the area were adequately engineered, built of proper material and with spillways. But first he had to penetrate Pittston's "corporate veil," to prove that the Buffalo Mining Company, a West Virginia corporation, was in fact a subsidiary of Pittston, a New York firm. In this manner, Stern was able to get the case into federal court instead of the corrupt Logan County courts where the full pressure of the coal company...