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Speaking last week to an earnest audience of some 400 females at a Manhattan conference on women and management, pear-shaped Columnist Art Buchwald declared with a straight face that "I'm as sympathetic as anyone to Women's Lib. I know from personal experience what it's like to be treated as a sex object." The interesting thing, Buchwald said later, is that nobody laughed...
...Nevada, Democrat Mike O'Callaghan and Republican Ed Fike both took a hard line on crime and campus disturbances. It did not hurt O'Callaghan, a former schoolteacher, that the Republicans bungled a rebuttal to Columnist Jack Anderson's charges that Fike had taken part in shady land deals...
Clue in the Candy. The farthest-out macrobiotic lore, which would come as a surprise to the Zen Buddhist monks themselves, is to be found in the culinary columns of underground newspapers, where readers are routinely warned against eating too much meat, dairy products or sugar. A columnist in the Los Angeles Free Press, for example, recently speculated that the University of Texas massacre a few years back was caused by too much yin-in this case sugar-in the killer's blood. The clue that supported his conclusion: chocolate candy was found in the pockets of the slain...
...January unveiled the White House police in Student Prince-like uniforms allegedly inspired by his impressions of European palace guards. He modified those uniforms but launched the President's Trumpeteers to beef up the introductory ceremonies featuring "Hail to the Chief." Last June he shook up the Cabinet, causing columnist William S. White to say: "... the President is... openly reducing the institutional prestige and status of the Cabinet and drawing into the White House proper... the largest palace guard in history." Time's cover story last June 8, "Nixon's Palace Guard," noted that the key figures around Nixon-Staff...
...there is a war going on at all, so deeply is he involved in watching the political maneuvering. All of his dispatches come from Saigon, away from the fighting, with the exception of two from the Paris talks and one from the DMZ. He is, it seems, a political columnist by trade, a war correspondent only incidentally...