cultural notes. Representative Mario Biaggi of New York hotly denies the substance of a paternity suit filed against him by a former campaign worker, and Mayor Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia hotly denies that he once had a romance with stripper Blaze Starr. “Archie Bunker” has been made an honorary member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (for honoring picket lines at CBS last year), and hotly denies that he is the illegitimate son of Fuehrer Bunker. Gina Lollobrigida has told Tokyo newsmen that watching streaking is fun. Attorney General Saxbe has abandoned his weekly press conferences after learning that if the shoe fits, you can’t get it out of your mouth. And the Smithsonian Institution has opened an exhibit on “Bathrooms in America.”
Teddy Kennedy got his way: South Vietnam will get no increase in aid this year. Although inflation has decreased the value of U.S. aid, Kennedy and a majority of the Senate and the House were unwilling to measure the United States’ commitment to South Vietnam in terms of substance. They held to the dollar figure, and hope to reduce even that next year. It is not absolutely certain that South Vietnam can survive even with our aid, but it is reasonably certain that it cannot survive without it. The young Massachusetts Senator has certainly grown in leadership over the years: he will do his best to see that all is in vain.
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