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Show lr irxr- - wmCTii m The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, August WWMBMWWM jB.xir ppr-- Ii"xwy I , William Satire ". Howcums Add Up to Irritation New W oik Times Servin' SHlGTO - President Fisen hower used to have a benign "enemies list of his own Whenever somebody lrri tated him, he would write that person's name on a scrap of , pajH-ri rumple it up and throw it in a ' I A I i bottom drawer, thereby ridding && I I ! &ovi 3 '- fcriillwrhwnBUininTW r.; ,vi g, When Sen Enin observed on Down Face the Nation last weekend North we in Carolina, say Howcum1 His remark sent me to my bottom drawer where I keep my crumplhow turns Flattened cpt and preed-up sented here today these collected howcums represent a cathartic checklist for diehards, some specifics to fling about in justifying that lingering feeling of helpless resentment How cum the lack of investigation of massive vote frauds m the I960 Kennedy-Nixo- n i TRB From Washington campaign has never been called a coverup"? President Nixons Wired for Sound The New Republic We've been reading a review copy of Theodore H White's The Making of the President 1972 and have come across a passage that conjuies up dcheio"s possibilities for the historians, not to mention the gossipmongers, now that we know President Nivon was wired for sound from early 1971 untd this July out-tak- Reflex Fear 'j Says White: He (Nixon) had a reflex fear of being quoted particularly since m private his language was hard, stubborn, blunt . . . Sometimes (his) tidiness of mind expressed itself in an outburst of as when an orderly child, temper building a pile of blocks, flares at someone who tumbles them. The outburst of temper could sound like a snarl, as when his nomination of G Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court was ejected by the Senate The full nature of the Nixon mind was probably known only to three people, the three who saw him on a daily basis Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Haldemun. With such people, the President had no need to conceal the clear tenacity of his thinking With Kissinger alone the President could talk of the China problem in terms bf Russia . . . With Ehrlichman. he could sit down to talk about the problems of the city and then cut through the guff and say, All right, now were talking about the Negro problem. But it was with Haldeman that the President was most at ease, Haldeman who could most easily put away his own pnde of personality and become the President's instrument, the guardian of his broodings and his pnv acy Bizarre Attraction Hie passage got us to thinking. How does one buy uito a piece of the Richard M Nixon Library? With the presidential tape's we now know exist to preserve such conversations for posterity, the RMN Library should outdo Disneyland as Southern Californias most bizarre attraction As White suggests, Nixon on Carswell. Nixon on China in terms of Russia. Nixon on the Negro problem, Nixon feeding instructions into Haldeman and with the bark off the robot should make fascinating listening. And how about Nixon on Wally Hick-el- ? On William Calley? On Martha Mitchell? On the comings and goings of John Connally? On keeping Spiro on the ticket or dumping him Or those presito Agnew before dential instructions sending him forth to commit oratoncal mayhem? And lets not forget what Nixon said to Haldemanabout Ehrlichman when Ehrlichman was not m the room, and what he said to Ehrlichman about Haldeman when Haldeman was not m the room, and what he said to Bebe about both of them, if indeed he ever said anything to Bebe. Were told as part of the folklore that he likes Bebe around because he doesnt have to talk to him. Maybe the tapes can confirm that, too. It all reminds us of the movie was by Emile DeAntonm, which Mill-hous- fashioned from old movie and television film clips, including much footage from the discards that were never used in the finished products Theres a marvelous one that shows Nixon in the 1968 campaign doing short TV and radio spots in a studio Hes sitting at a table holding a bunch of index cards, and he tells the director he wants to do a few-oend rights Suddenly he turns on the public face of sincenty, gives a few brief Bernstein on Words By Theodore M. Bernstein He, she, it. A news story about a wandering black bear contained tins passage: Apparently it had not escaped from a zoo and the police speculated he may have wandered into town from the hilly Two things should be noted countryside about that sentencefirst, the pionouns should be made consistent, second, as a general guide it is best not to use a personal pronoun in referring to an animal unless its sex has ben established or it has a name In this instance the bear w as an it - to racial the at equality (an equal place starting line was the way he used to put it, every man a Jesse Owens) Then he turns off the sincerity face tosses the index cards aside and says something like, Okay, (hats enough on civil rights. Wp dont mean to be greedy, but it strikes us that its an awful shame that the electronic wizards who thought of preserving all the presidential sounds for posterity didnt install a nonstop TV camera, too. By the way, has anybody asked about that? Guess not Too preposterous. comments on his commitment Anyway, we ought to be safisfied with the tapes and well probably have a tough enough time getting even the stuff into the public domain. At the John F. Kennedy Library, scores or maybe hundreds of interviews were taped with notables in JFK's life, and only a small portion have been made public The Kennedy Library has a screening committee headed by Burke Marshall, the former assistant attorney-genera- l under Kennedy, that listens to the tapes and decides which can be made public and when The committee is the overseer on matters not only to national security but also of taste Presumably the RMN Library will have a similar screenmg committee Who would make a good chairman? If an old Justice Department hand is required, how about ? John Mitchell? No? Then Robert Dick Kleindienst? John Dean? The woods are full of men who could be counted on to see that national security and good taste were preserved Done ban undone. On a can of paint, writes Stuart Graves of Media, Pa , the label said, As soon a you're done painting, wash out the brushes with water" He says he has a feeling that done used that way is atrocious grammar. Not exactly. But the authorities are not unanimous m sanctioning it. The usage panel of the Ame.xcan Heritage Dictionary split 53 to 47 percent in favor of that use of done to mean completed or finished. Websters unabridged, second edition, labels it colloquial, but the third edition Watergate Casualty finds nothing wrong with it Neither do Something tells us, though, that the Websters New World, the Random great brainchild of this most House and the big Oxford English Dicof all American regimes will itself be a tionary The verdict would seem to be casualty of Watergate. When the tapes that done in the sense of finished is well were conceived simply as grist for histoon the way to acceptability, if it has not rians (hke Victor Lasky) that was one already arrived. It is, of course, proper thing: now they're like fingerprints, or to say that the leg of lamb is done That bootmarks in the mud, in an old Basil does not mean that it is finished but rathRathbone movie. Their availability as er that it is sufficiently cooked mere entertamr ent, we fear, may be Word oddities. Random has several , forever lost We'll probably have to ancestors, chief among which is fhe Old settle for David Frye domg Nixon talking to run French randir, violently. Running to Haldeman and Ehrlichman in the Oval at great speed was thought of as a haphOffice. And even if the tapes are reazard action and random has the conleased, how will we know the voice we or lack of notation of haphazardness hear isn't David Frye's? method It's a dilemma But were sure the Nixon mastics of public relations will work someth ng out. How about installing in the RMN Library one of those animated Presidents like they have m Disney World Instead of havrng a lifelike, gestAbe Lincoln delivering the Geturing tysburg Address, the feature attraction could be Dick Nixon walking around (out of sync, of course) mouthing a selected number of his Oval Office tapes. One could be billed. The President Talks to John Dean. The Another could be President Meets the Plumbers Or, if -the mechanical Nixon breaks dow n, they could put on The President Doesnt With a little Talk to Bebe Rebozo. at J Walter Thompson, it imagination ra may yet be possible to make a silk purse out of all this Howcum John Deans flat assertion under oath that I planted no stories received no refutation from the dozens of people with whom Dean and his lawyers planted stones' No Clamor to strain. and insight while Carl Stern of NBC has felt free to indulge his blast s1 to even wrong for Nixon investigators bi euthe the mitials IRS Howcum supposed Howcum the wrath of end hbertan ans so properlv aimtd at the t event misuse of government power to get" in dniduals never managed to get cranked up (with the lonely exception of Wayne Morse) at the misuse of government get" power by Robert Kennedy to arranged Probe Howcum there has been no clamor to investigate the investigations inflicted on the 1968 campaign Nixon-Agne- Howcum people usually sensitive to ethnic or religious slurs feel free to dism the White parage the Germans House, and like to identify Haldeman and Ehrlichman as Chnstian Scientists when they identify no other witness religious affiliations? Howcum it is laudable to raise funds to ansom Cubans recruited to land at the Bay of Pigs, but temble to raise funds for support and lawyers fees to s who broke into the Watergate? (This howcum coliapes under examination of motive, but it has a certain sy mmetry ) Cuban-American- Howcum those rightly indignant at unfair prying into the private lives of public figures have shown no interest in the snooping activities of Carmine Belhno, as brought into the open by George Bush Wrong for Nivon Howcum it was right for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over tax re- - Bob Uakieman who was to he s,, efficient neve for the taping of presidential conversations about the y.uht Sequoia' (May tie this howcum came out of too wrong diuwer ) Howcum the incredible similanty of the devotion of Gordon laddy and Daniel ElNberg to a higher law has led to ones liomzdtion and the others inrar ceration Jimmy lloffa of himself what later came to called hangups ! tuins to a Kennedy investigator, without so much as a wn'ten request, when it is Howcum nobody is asking now what foreign lr.elligenee reasons" were given for the unconscionable tapping of Martin Luther Kings telephone, or about the propriety of FBI agents seeking to leak contents of those tapes to newspaper editors Howcum the people who arr so irate alioiit our secret bombing of North Viet nameso sanctuaries near the Cambodian border never so much as waggle a finger at North Vietnamese troops for j.seni Ming on Cambodian soil in (he fust place Howcum nobody ever objeited before to the dirty tncks" and negative advance" perfected by Lyndon Johnsons campaign staff and described on page 349 of Theodore Whites The making of the President 1964" Howcum the scoffeis who were so certain that the Vietnam coast fire would not last longer than a few weeks, are not admitting they may have been wrong after six months' Howcum the report that President Indulge Biases Howcum Daniel Schorr of CBS, who as the subject of F BI harassment has more icason than any other reporter to be angry at this administration, has been repori.ng the Ervin hearings with re Johnson surreptitiously taped conversa (tons with George Wallace has raised not a single ey ebrow (Copyright) Dr. T.R. Van Dell Early Treatment Necessary For Victim of Animal Bite rubies further evidence of concern is the fad that more than 50,000 persons bitten are frightened enough to seek anti rabies treatment This has helped keep the annual death rate from rabies to less than twenty of human Not even one dog bite in 10 is serious nevertheless, all such injuries should be washed thoroughly and flushed with soap and water, a deter- . water or gent, ,? aione. If a quater v nary ammonium The most important consideration is never to let the biting dog out of sight This is not easy if the offender was a stray, but it eliminates most of the suspense and uncertainty associated with dog bites. When impounded, the animal for 10 days is kept under observation and, if the animal dies within this period the head is examined for evidence of rabies compound such as Zephiran is used, all traces of soap should be removed because soap neutralizes the action of the compound Dr. Van Dellen s an added pi irrigate the area with a 50 to 7(1 percent solution of In order to clean the etbvl alcohol injured area thoroughly the physician may find it necessary to cut awav dangling pieces of skin The need for early treatment depends whether there is a possibility the animal is or is not rabid One never knows when it is a stray that eludes capture And treatment becomes even more critical when the victim is bitten on the face or neck In other words, the type of exposure determines the immediate care upon The majority of dog or cat bites lead to considerable fear and anxiety because, dogs, in particular, are a primary sourc e Mar-dian- bug-happ- y r PLUS 3 FREE RIDES AT LAGOON! 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North realized that his partner might be bidding under pressure, but he felt that his fine trump support and general values merited a raise to game. In an effort to obtain a quick ruff, West attacked with the ace of diamonds For safety reasons, East decided to encourage with the if South held the ten of Opening lead Ace of a Giv,i a reprieve at the nine clubs, a sh.ft to that suit might prove fa'ai for vbe de inary work done, declarer fense, West duly continued with a diamond to the ten and jack, declarer ruffing, and it seemed there was nothing declarer could do about his two potential club losers. It was obvious that West could not hold the king of clubs. He had opened with a preemptive bid and had shown up with the ace of As he probably diamonds of held the anhold not could he hearts, led the queen of diamonds from dummy. East covered with the king and declarer discarded a club a loser-on-los- play. East found himself with a diamond trick he did not expect to make, but he was not especially pleased with Greek gift he was caught in an endplay. If he returned a club, it would run around to dummy's queen and declarer's only losers would be two diamonds and a heart; if he led a diamond, declarer would get a this king-quee- n other high card. Apparently, declarer would still have to lose two clubs and a heart The only way to avert this would be to endplay East Trumps were drawn in two rounds and the ace of hearts was cashed to strip East of that suit His prelim y Jt South gave lip a trick he didn't need to lose and got back two in return a bargain at any price jl g X Ja. je 'M ttL p M. J " if J- - it 2 at t J JL ' 0 1 id jr yt s ' ; |