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Shortly after the riots, Greek Orthodox Patriarch-Athenagoras had protested to Menderes that the violence seemed to be concerted and guided "by an unknown hand." On the witness stand, the patriarch admitted that he had no specific knowledge to back up his charge; he had gotten his information second hand. But two hours before the riots broke out, said Athenagoras, he had received a phone call from the governor of Istanbul, now one of the defendants, informing him, "There may be some demonstrations over Cyprus. But don't worry...
...with a windy editorial offering regrets for any "misinterpretation." An A.F.L.-C.I.O. spokesman divorced the parent union from the leaflet: "It's a U.A.W. baby, and that's it." Solidarity Managing Editor Henry Santiestevan glumly admitted to a tactical error: "There were other ways we could have gotten Nixon...
...Marquise was clearly pregnant, but she didn't know how she had gotten that way. Hers was not the usual fault of having been too generous to too many men. She was a virtuous Italian lady of noble birth, a gentle widow and devoted mother. Her father, mother and doctor were not amused when she denied having entertained any man, and a midwife sternly reminded her that only the Virgin Mary had been raised above the law of nature. Whereupon the baffled Marquise put an ad in the paper, described her predicament and asked any man to come forward...
...words like that. That's the difference between me and Senator Kennedy. He had all of the opportunities but doesn't know how to use them, while I have best use of the scant opportunities life has meagerly provided. For example, Senator Kennedy has easily gotten a brain trust. I have worked to get one too. My Harvard professors like Senator Kennedy's provide honest advice, principle, consistency, and moral fiber for my campaign, but unlike Senator Kennedy I don't let these things...
...hear. Yet much of the evening he was saying things that weren't intrinsically amusing, remarks which were carried along solely by the force of his personality. Now, this is not necessarily the sign of an inferior comedian; some of the best comedians of the modern era have gotten along brilliantly by saying dull things in a witty way. Yet one suspects that if Sahl had pulled out a few more of the stops, he could have come up with a much spicier performance--one which would have shocked some people, and would have been a good deal more interesting...