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Ringing out the Old, a medley of year-end items: Henry Kissinger placed 2nd to John Dean III in the Spanish magazine Mundo’s Man of the Year Contest. … By Christmas week the price of frankincense and myrrh had tripled in the New York frankincense and myrrh market. (They use it for scented candles and perfume bases). . . . Detroit made it again, for the umpteenth time it has won the Murder Capital of the Nation title (693 killings through Dec. 1, expected to hit 750 by New Year’s Day). . . . Dominique Danielle, the mobilized Madame of the Far West, has been turned down by the British Columbia authorities. She had asked for a subsidy of $33,000 to keep her “Bordellomobile” on the road in the service of isolated BC communities. . . . Former Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway came close to stirring up new riots (in certain quarters) by hailing Senator Lowell Weicker for having “the moral courage to restate Americanism at its best.” . . . James Jackson, functionary of the Communist Party U.S.A., had a Christmas dream come true. He received the Mongolian People’s Republic’s Order of Friendship Medal. . . . Secretary General Gus Hall has reinstituted Party cards for the first time since 1948. “The young people want them,” he explained. “They’re proud to be Communists.” There are card-carrying Communists again in our future.

Author Jules Witcover, hoping to do better next time around, signed a contract with Viking to co-author a book on Spiro Agnew’s downfall. His last was White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew. . . . Erich Segal and Yale ended their love story—Segal left singing the No Tenure Blues. . . . Former Illinois Congressman Roman Pucinski, muttering loud “Bah! Humbugs” at Washington bureaucrats, spent the pre-Christmas weekend stringing lights around the front of his house. . . . White House visitors in 1973 were down 200,000 from the earlier Nixon years. . . . The Swiss, not to be caught short, had on hand for the arrival of the Geneva peace talkers (when they arrive): a square table, an oblong table, an oval table, a six-sided table, a seven-sided table (but not, apparently, a crescent-or Star of David-shaped table). . . . An Israeli firm has brought out a perfume called Chutzpah, with scents for men and women. . . . Presidential aide Bruce Herschensohn concluded that any Republican who had enjoyed 1973 must have had an “absolutely incredible sex life.” . . . Christmas lights twinkled merrily in towns and hamlets in Rhodesia: no fuel shortage there, seven years of UN sanctions having taught the Rhodesians to make their economy as nearly self-supporting as possible. Rhodesia depends on oil for only 20 per cent of its power needs; it makes use of its abundant water power.

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Ringing out the Old, a medley of year-end items: Henry Kissinger placed 2nd to John Dean III in the Spanish magazine Mundo’s Man of the Year Contest. … By Christmas week the price of frankincense and myrrh had tripled in the New York frankincense and myrrh market. (They use it for scented candles and perfume bases). . . . Detroit made it again, for the umpteenth time it has won the Murder Capital of the Nation title (693 killings through Dec. 1, expected to hit 750 by New Year’s Day). . . . Dominique Danielle, the mobilized Madame of the Far West, has been turned down by the British Columbia authorities. She had asked for a subsidy of $33,000 to keep her “Bordellomobile” on the road in the service of isolated BC communities. . . . Former Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway came close to stirring up new riots (in certain quarters) by hailing Senator Lowell Weicker for having “the moral courage to restate Americanism at its best.” . . . James Jackson, functionary of the Communist Party U.S.A., had a Christmas dream come true. He received the Mongolian People’s Republic’s Order of Friendship Medal. . . . Secretary General Gus Hall has reinstituted Party cards for the first time since 1948. “The young people want them,” he explained. “They’re proud to be Communists.” There are card-carrying Communists again in our future.

Author Jules Witcover, hoping to do better next time around, signed a contract with Viking to co-author a book on Spiro Agnew’s downfall. His last was White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew. . . . Erich Segal and Yale ended their love story—Segal left singing the No Tenure Blues. . . . Former Illinois Congressman Roman Pucinski, muttering loud “Bah! Humbugs” at Washington bureaucrats, spent the pre-Christmas weekend stringing lights around the front of his house. . . . White House visitors in 1973 were down 200,000 from the earlier Nixon years. . . . The Swiss, not to be caught short, had on hand for the arrival of the Geneva peace talkers (when they arrive): a square table, an oblong table, an oval table, a six-sided table, a seven-sided table (but not, apparently, a crescent-or Star of David-shaped table). . . . An Israeli firm has brought out a perfume called Chutzpah, with scents for men and women. . . . Presidential aide Bruce Herschensohn concluded that any Republican who had enjoyed 1973 must have had an “absolutely incredible sex life.” . . . Christmas lights twinkled merrily in towns and hamlets in Rhodesia: no fuel shortage there, seven years of UN sanctions having taught the Rhodesians to make their economy as nearly self-supporting as possible. Rhodesia depends on oil for only 20 per cent of its power needs; it makes use of its abundant water power.