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Show Jf- ALL DUNN rfc by Roy Dunn ped along at a pace that left us bewildered, and fear for the first, and hope for the latter. And if neck lines plunge any lower, and hem lines rise any highei, a saturation point will eventually be reached and a lot of folks will be jaybirding down to the welfare offices to get their names on the rolls. Shucks, I'd just as soon skip 19G9, if it ain't going to be any better than 1968. And that's a fact. SEE YA'ALL, LATER HOWDY FOLKS Believe it or not, we are well into April and over one fourth of this year is already gone. So far, cur new President hasn't done much more than maintain the status-quo. In his third month, our 37th President has drawn more complaints by not being active enough, rathei than wrong. As for the Vietnam mess, Nixon has steered a straight course right down the middle of the Johnson Administration policy and casualties are still as much as 300 or 400 a week. Since the Paris peace talks (so-called) (so-called) started last May, there have been more than 10,000 American boys killed in that sink hole. I reckon it's too early to guess whether Nixon will be a good President, but I believe it's impossible to be a mediocre President in these times. Nixon has already established a reputation repu-tation of being a slower-moving . and cautious. Maybe it's too early to become hysterical because be-cause he hasn't gotten into high gear, but it seems to me that time is running out and I wish he would hurry and make his decisions and spell out his intentions. in-tentions. He will probably work hard to head the country down the road he thinks is right. But as he steers a wavering course one foot will be on the throttle, and the other on the brake, for not even his closest aides has a clear idea of what his next move might be. America prayes for him to make right decisions, and soon. We look back on 1968 with a lot of mixed feelings for this was the year that people looked look-ed to a new administration, due to be installed in January of 1969, to give them a new lease on life and turn a page with renewed hope for a better world. 1968 was the year of Hong Kong Flu, of flowers, "freedom", "free-dom", pot, psychedelic images, and four letter words which were not LOVE. The year that men of the cloth protested rules on birth control. That heart transplants gave rise to the question of just when a person is really dead. That the U.S. Ambassador in Guatemada was assassinated and San Antonio put on their Hemis-Fair while the mule-drawn mule-drawn wagons were parked at the base of the Washington Monument and a Resurrection City of shantys was jerry-built and building codes were ignored as well as sanitation codes. This was the year that LBJ promised us he wouldn't run again which calmed a lot of fclks nerves. Then George Wallace Wal-lace drawed enough support that caused their nerves to get all riled up again. And folks blocd pressure got even higher when the cost of living jumped 4y2 percent, all in one whack. That was the biggest jump in almost twenty years. 1968 was the year that I got mad at Jackie and admired ? Greek while Richard's daughter, daugh-ter, Julie, got hitched to David Eisenhower II. And while these new lives were launched, Robert Kennedy and Martin King were murdered. This prompted the President, Lyndon Johnson, to say: "Let us, foi God's sake, resolve to live under the law. Let us put an end to violence and the preaching of violence." And still the violence goes on. And this was the year that Saturn V, the biggest rocket in the world, lifted three Apollo Eight astronauts to the moon at Christmas time, while the eathlings beat one another's biains out near Bethlehem and broke s truce in Vietnam. And the Pueblo was taken in tow and her crew made prisoners of the North Koreans on January 23. They were released on the eve of Christmas in one of the oddest bits of diplomacy of United States history. The skipper skip-per and his crew are still being prosecuted at this writing, and prostest, dissension and violence almost became a way of life. Yes, this was the year that 10,000 anti-war protestors descended des-cended on Chicago and left a convention city shocked and bitter and divided. That law and order became foreign words, that murder and mugging mug-ging became commonplace. The year that spending in the U.S. reached an all time high and children by the thousands, thou-sands, starved in Biafra. And still we say that all men are born equal. Yes folks, this was the year that history and hemlines zip- |