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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1973
Page
2
A fictional scenario places readers in the president’s seat amid plots and plumbers, wiretaps, and the Watergate scandal. It questions national security, ethics, and the choice between resignation, impeachment, or endurance as truth surfaces. The piece closes with a biblical and Einstein quote.
Seattle public TV station KCTS airs a nightly warmup show before videotaped Watergate hearings. The prelude replays parts of the 1954 Army McCarthy hearings with a three man panel to contrast eras. Panelists include Richard Meyer Bill Shadel and Fendall Yerxa.
A crossword style clue list with across and down entries. Includes hints like trimmings from a tree and lustrous fiber plus many others across and down for solvers. The grid references various items from simple to obscure including an Amatory clue and a Romanian coin.
A study of humor shows Americans coping with the Watergate mess through jokes and satire at Emmy ceremonies and in public banter. Quips reference loyalty oaths, Nixon, Berle, Carson, Cronkite, and the Watergate scandal as a shared cultural outlet aiding resilience.
On June 12, 1973, key historical milestones include New York City incorporation under English law in 1665 and John Winthrop leading to Salem harbor in 1630. Other entries recall the 1838 Iowa Territory formation, 1940 Japan bombings of Chungking, and 1943 Trans-Canadian Highway opening. Medgar Evers’ 1963 assassination is noted as ten years prior. Modern notes include De Gaulle suppressing demonstrations and a 1972 Supreme Court ruling on private clubs and black guests. Births mention David Rockefeller, Jim Nabors, and Vic Damone with a Will Rogers thought for the day.
A collage of joke lines and quips from The Corn Colonel column includes gags about gossip versus news, meek husbands, military prep ignorance, a leopard lunching a Shepherd, bad golf shots, high school romances, and a claim that tax defies gravity. The piece ends with Seeger necks tweak and the signature Duffy.
Compiled by Publishers Weekly, the fiction list features The Odessa File Jonathan Livingston Seagull Once Is Not Enough Green Darkness The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and more. Nonfiction includes Dr Atkins Diet Revolution The Best and the Brightest Hour of Gold Hour of Lead The Implosion Conspiracy among others.
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