The movie ROCKY, in which a street-fighter and amateur boxer from the Italian ghetto got a chance to fight the heavyweight champion, would not have been believable if Rocky had actually won the championship. The happy ending of that movie was … [Read more...] about SPINKS AND PRUITT-IGOE
The Legislative History of ERA — November 1976
Meaning of the Bicentennial
Do you know what we will be celebrating the Bicentennial of on July 4, 1976? The start or finish of the American Revolution? The writing or ratification of the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights? The Boston Tea Party? The Battles of Bunker Hill, … [Read more...] about Meaning of the Bicentennial
How To Celebrate The Bicentennial — April 1976
Historical Mistakes
For forty years, the world was fooled by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which the anthropologists told us was the missing link to prove evolution. The fraud was exposed in 1953 and ENCYCLOPAEDiA BRITANNICA now describes the Piltdown Man under the heading … [Read more...] about Historical Mistakes
Kennedy Assassination
The Warren Commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination of President John Kennedy, spent ten months working on its assignment, heard the testimony of 552 witnesses, and issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey … [Read more...] about Kennedy Assassination
PHONES AND WHALE OIL
Amidst the gloom and doom of the present recession, it is good to remember that, whatever the shortcomings of our American economic system, it is still better than any other system in the world. For example, take our privately-owned telephone … [Read more...] about PHONES AND WHALE OIL
HONG KONG REFUGEES
The largest unpunished crime of World War II was the deliberate action of the British and American governments to force millions of anti-Communist Russians, Ukrainians and Cossacks to return against their will to the Soviet Union and sure death in … [Read more...] about HONG KONG REFUGEES
HEALTH RESTRICTIONS
Airline stewardess Kathy Truax has been fired from her job because she is four pounds overweight. Her airline set a weight limit of 135 pounds for her height of feet, seven inches, and she weighed in at 139 pounds. Kathy says this is … [Read more...] about HEALTH RESTRICTIONS
STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY
While Dr. Henry Kissinger was attending the Moscow Summit in June, he declaimed to reporters: "One of the things we have to ask ourselves as a country is what in the name of God is strategic superiority? What is the significance of it, politically, … [Read more...] about STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY
