The Week

In Caltanissetta, Sicily, one Guido Rizza, a baker, has been fined the equivalent of $1,000 and put out of business for four months for the crime of selling bread for a nickel a pound over the price “frozen” by the municipal price-control board. The Kentucky Colonels, a professional basketball team (ABA), have been purchased by Mrs. Eleanor D. Brown, who named an all-woman board of directors, who will sponsor coffees and teas to promote season-ticket sales. About ninety thousand Mexican couples were married in one week recently, often with their children attending, in response to an offer by the Mexican government for common-law couples to make it legal at government expense. Mary Ann Vecchio, the “kneeling girl” made famous by a photo of the Kent State shootings, has been arrested and fined in Miami for prostitution. Jaipur, India, is called the Pink City. Mr. John Parker of North Carolina was celebrating his daughter’s wedding and pushed what he thought, he told the judge, was a traffic crosswalk button, which turned out to be a fire alarm; $1,000 fine and 360 days in the workhouse. Now back to the hearings.

If ever the clouds withdraw and the waters calm, the belief may emerge that the worst things the Watergaters did was to give people like Pete Hamill the opportunity to write things like this description of H. R. Haldeman: “The face has the bony German hardness, tempered over centuries of winter solitude, in flight from the Renaissance and the Mediterranean. We saw the face at the end of the Second World War, pleading innocence, patriotism, obedience to the leader. Killing was simply another operation, a problem of engineering to be solved . . .” (New York Post, August 1).

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In Caltanissetta, Sicily, one Guido Rizza, a baker, has been fined the equivalent of $1,000 and put out of business for four months for the crime of selling bread for a nickel a pound over the price “frozen” by the municipal price-control board. The Kentucky Colonels, a professional basketball team (ABA), have been purchased by Mrs. Eleanor D. Brown, who named an all-woman board of directors, who will sponsor coffees and teas to promote season-ticket sales. About ninety thousand Mexican couples were married in one week recently, often with their children attending, in response to an offer by the Mexican government for common-law couples to make it legal at government expense. Mary Ann Vecchio, the “kneeling girl” made famous by a photo of the Kent State shootings, has been arrested and fined in Miami for prostitution. Jaipur, India, is called the Pink City. Mr. John Parker of North Carolina was celebrating his daughter’s wedding and pushed what he thought, he told the judge, was a traffic crosswalk button, which turned out to be a fire alarm; $1,000 fine and 360 days in the workhouse. Now back to the hearings.

If ever the clouds withdraw and the waters calm, the belief may emerge that the worst things the Watergaters did was to give people like Pete Hamill the opportunity to write things like this description of H. R. Haldeman: “The face has the bony German hardness, tempered over centuries of winter solitude, in flight from the Renaissance and the Mediterranean. We saw the face at the end of the Second World War, pleading innocence, patriotism, obedience to the leader. Killing was simply another operation, a problem of engineering to be solved . . .” (New York Post, August 1).