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I'll 9 i i 1 9 9 1 the Detroit JfxuVvtss Can Avoid Gap Next Generation The Feature Page 15-A TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1975 TO SAY THE VERY LEAST, it was an interesting weekend. Some weekends sort of unfold with the speed or an old hound dog stretching and standing up. ThU past or.e was more like a litter of young pups scrambling around at dinner time. It started Thursday evening at Pinckney, where I was the graduation spsaker for the Class of '75. My message was simple: communication and appreciation.

These are the bridges across the ever-present generation gap. If the Class of '45 or '55 live one way, they are not ridiculing their way of life by accepting the Class of 75's new approach to life and values. You live life as suits the times and the peer pressures and the world pressures. We can no longer rule our lives on the theory that what is right for mother and father is always right for son and daughter, Particularly in these '70s. And the respond bility of young people is to see that no breakdown in communication ever occurs again between them and succeeding generations.

FRIDAY, I HAD a minor glimpse into our judicial system. I was watching a child custody case I was interested in at Macomb County Circuit Judge Frank E. Jeannette's court. It was a pleasure to see a judge seeking the truth and I was astonished at the work-load our judges have. More about this matter later.

comedic philosopher of the '70s, as Rogers and Bruce were for their times. During the evening there was an emergency run to St. Joseph Hospital Emergency Room, nothing serious as it turned out but let me congratulate the staff for excellent service and work. Saturday night in any hospital emergency room is an experience of enormous emotional impact, and experienced can make it so much easier. 1 SUNDAY NOON and a trip to Metro Airport to put son Jason on a plane for summer camp and a visit with his cousins in th? Carolinas.

His mother Beryl and I shared a sigh I'm sure all parents sigh when they watch their children grow up. Eight years old and changing planes by himself in Atlanta en route to Charlotte, N.C. The two most valuable things you can give your children are wings and roots. And when they test their wings, they also test the solidity of those roots. But it's always so hard for parents when kids test their wings because they seem to test 'em when they are so young, so small.

You know what I mean. It's a time when parents and children both grow. There is also the inevitable thought as you watch the big Delta jet lift off that some day another jet will lift off taking your children away more permanently away to their own full lives, where their returns will only be for visits. You hope that when that time comes, they will be happy and you will be happy, that their lives will be purposeful and challeng-T ing and yours will be, too, with neither experiencing a void, but each sharing a new adult-level love and friendship. That's what's life is all about.

Sort of what I was trying to say to the Pinckney Class of '75 and their parents. THE WEEKEND ENDED with a note of regret on my part as I watched Sen. Phil Hart on the Lou Gordon Show. As I listened to Hart, I realized how long ago I was a Phil Hart fan. Long before I came to Michigan, Hart was one of those senators seeking the truth and one of the even rarer senators who believed in the truth.

Now he's retiring, regret that I never got to know Phil Hart better, because there is so much the man knows. He is a man who has been on the humane side all his life. A man who has always sought for and fought for the good of the people. I kept thinking how much Richard Pryor amd Phil Hart are alike, even though they are from different worlds. Both are tapped into the soul of the people.

They both have seen the enemy. One has told us about it for years from a congressional stage, and the other is telling us about it today from another stage. The enemy is anyone who opposes the truth. -l SATURDAY MORNING was uneventful, with one minor exception: I shaved my beard. Having a beard in the hot summer is murder on a sweater like ol' porous pores me.

"Hey," I said to me, "this beard is becoming a hassle to me. It's THE beard I always wanted to grow. I grew it and now I'm tired of it." 'Off it went and 'nuff said about it. SATURDAY NIGHT at Pine Knob and Richard Pryor, a man who has heard the street talk and knows that its shuckin' ajid jivin' is the truth. Pryor doesn't make fun of truth or with Itruth.

He lets the truth in a dishonest world deliver its own punch line. Will Rogers did this. Lenny Jruce did this. Now, a young black comedian named Richard Pryor is doing it. Do not call him a black Will Rogers or a black Lenny Bruce.

Richard Pryor is s.mply the sharpest By Earl Wilson Sosvm off wz A 1 6mw the Jit ater-M Y-tm miete it; 'MAttWE ON FOR A SANCWcH. Yb4 fbtfiM 0r? Metfmb. (Y -rue Wfvf ri Vr -wm. JU r-Al This Film Was Real Violence A Collection of Things That Aren't What They Seem- LITTLE THINGS I LEARNED while tracking down important things: That citizens of Monaco are not called "ists," "ians'op-' "ites" but "Monegasques." That mollusks, which look pretty much alike to the untrained eye, comprise some 100,000 different species. That one of the main reasons for famine in such countries as India is that life expectancy has doubled in a single without a commensurate rise in food supply.

That a f'sycophant," which now means a boot-licker, initially referred to an accuser, or denouncer, or informer against crimi'- nals. (An interesting example of the psychological way a word broadens its original meaning until it takes on a different one). That man-made smog has been found recently as high as 43,000 feet above the oceans, and aviators report seeing it even over the North and South Poles. That Marlene Dietrich began her professional entertainment career as a violinist rather than as an That the great comic fantasists of English literature W.S. Gilbert, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and G.K.

Chesterton-were all childless. That the "Moonlight Sonata" of Beethoven was a misleading name given to it by a critic, and was never called that by the composer, who intended the music to reflect melancholy ratfcer than romantic attachment. 0" That Buddha is not the name of a man, but a title (fne Enlightened One) for Siddhartha Gautamajust as "Mahatma" was a title and not part of Mohandas Gandhrs name. That Salem, and the half-dozen other cities and towns in the U.S called Salem are named after Jerusalem (Salem was its ancient name). That our Indian Summer is known in England as St.

Luke's Summer, and they have an even later one called St. Martin's Summer. That ocean currents do not run directly out to sea, and garbage dumped into the oceans is as likely to return to the coast as be mixed and lost in the depths forever. That there was nearly a gap between the time paper was invented in China (in the 2d Century) and knowledge of its use in Europe. That the familiar Elizabethan word, "methinks," much used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, did not mean think," but, "It seems to me." NEW YORK You meet a lot of effeminate people in show business, but Robert Conrad isn't one of them, He squirmed uneasily in his chair as he was1 being Inter-, viewed.

"Don Stroud broke three of my ribs kicking me in the last picture, "Sudden he said. "I'll explain the picture in one word violence. We kill 13 people no, 14 including three children under 10. "Stroud is a great actor, but I think he broke my ribs inten-. tionally.

Not that he admitted it. Don Stroud is a maniac. "My next role after that is Jimmy Hoffa," Conrad continued. "I'm the best qualified actor in the country to play Hoffa. I was a dock loader and in the Teamsters in Chicago when I was 15, getting a buck-and-a-half an hour.

When I met Hoffa in Pontiac he said to them, 'Why didn't you bring this kid to me in the first That Qh-So-Sweet CIA BNtL place?" THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Comedian David Brenner, opening hilariously at Buddy's Place, said about New York City's being broke that "only Americans could buy a prop-erty from the Indians for $24 and lose money on the deal." Brenner visited the west, where, he said, "People say weird things like, 'Good morning. How are Buddy Rich 6aid Brenner is on the Johnny Carson show more than Carson. "Rightly because he's fun- nier." Chuck Stone Riba 51. 1 Robert Conrad: Three broken ribs. WASHINGTON Most Americans pre willing to put up with all the shen-'anigans of.

the CIA in the name of na- tional security. As a matter of fact the only item in the Rockefeller commis- sion's report that seemed to disturb anybody was the one where. it was re-- vealed that the CIA had been experi-: menting with LSD and giving it to unknowing victims. It makes one very nervous now to go to the house of someone who works for the agency. THE DAY AFTER the report came out I dropped over to Blackwhistle's house to see I could get any more 1 information than- had appeared in the commission's findings, Blackwhistle asked' me if I would like a cup of coffee.

"Yes," I "thank you." He poured out the coffee into a mug and said, "One lump of sugar or two?" "I'll take is black," I said ner- vously. "If? awfully strong," he said. "Let me put one lump in for you." "No! No! I don't want any sugar!" I screamed. 1 "But you always take sugar in your coffee," he said. "I'm trying to lose weight," I plied.

"HOW ABOUT a lump of saccharin?" "Please, Blackwhistle. I don't want anything in the coffee." "All right. Would you like a vitamin tablet?" "What for?" "I'D RATHER go to Disney World," I said. "How about some saltwater taffy? They had a sale on it at the CIA candy store today." "I'm not hungry, Blackwhistle. As a matter of fact I came to speak to you about the Rockefeller report.

It said the CIA was involved in assassinations, break-ins, illegal reading of mail, domestic spying and political espionage." "Nobody'is perfect," he said defensively. "How about a bowl of canned peaches with syrup on them?" "No way," I said. "Frankly, even your coffee tastes bitter." "That's because you didn't put any sugar in it. Here, let me help you." I held the coffee close to my bosom to protect it. "I like my coffee bitter," I cried.

HE SEEMED very nervous. Then he said, "Popcorn. Certainly you would like some popcorn with melted butter on it. I can make some in a jiffy. Once you taste it, you'll be out of this world." 1 v'Tve got to go.

Thanks again for all the hospitality." "Don't go," he begged. "Have pot luck with us." "Maybe some other time." I said goodby and dashed home. When I walked into the kitchen my wife said, "I'm glad you're home. Would you go over to the Black-whistles and ask if we could borrow a cup of sugar?" I shouted at her, "Are you out of your blinkin' mind?" Producer Morton Gottlieb, author Bernard Slade and backer Enid Haupt stand to split millions after "Same Time, Next Year" is sold to the movies for $1,000,001 and 10 percent of the gross. Gottlieb insists on the extra $1 to beat the "Born Yesterday" $l-million record sale price Rachel Roberts told Sally Pepper she'll play a mother on the BBC-TV series, "How Green Was My Valley" Liz Taylor, back in Leningrad, said she no longer has an agent.

She'll be her own. The Michigan prison breakout via helicopter boosted busi ness for the film "Breakout," about a similiar jailbreak. "You might catch a cold Sitting next to the air conditioner," "That's like catching i "Have a cookie," Blackwhistle said. just made them." "You just made cookies?" "Of course; everybody at the agency lepras to bake. It's part of our training." He showed me a book, "The Joy of CIA Cooking." I WAS ABOUT to open it when he grabbed it from me and said, "I'm sorry, it's classified." I passed up the cookies.

I sat drinking my coffee and staring at him. Finally he said, "Have you ever thought about taking a trip?" 1 "I take trips all the time," I 'told him. "No, I mean a REAL trip, with stars and rockets and rainbows and silver clouds." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Nothing, I was just thinking how nice it would be to take a trip someplace where no one had ever been before." fFn 1 7 Cleveland Amory T. The Parties Still Don't Enforce Voting Discipline FOR TIGHTWAD Ebenezer Scrooge, who inhabits the White House under the masquerade of benevolent Gerald R. Forfl, the return of Maley's ghost has been a veto-sustaining blessing in disguise.

Contrary to belief, reports about the death of Marley, a.k.a. the Southern Democrat-Republican alliance, are greatly exaggerated. He's alive and kicking: on strip-mining and especially on the $5.3 billion jobs bill. Because jobs immediately affect more people than strip the jobs bill veto demands a closer scrutiny. Sm OF THF 22 Democrats who voted to sustain Ford's veto 335 the jobs bill, 18 were Southerners.

Yet, the House DemocratK leadership was able to enforce party loyalty more efficients than the Republican leadership. Those 22 defecting DemocraSS out of 285 represented only seven percent, whereas the JJ defecting Republicans who voted to override their Republican president's veto represent 13 percent of the House GOP. Such statistical hair-sp'itting still doesn't console the humi ated Democrats, who only four months ago were reveling in, near two-thirds' majority. "There's a lot of talk about how do we discipline the guys," said the legislative assistant to one of the House DernS cratic leaders. And political discipline is precisely the missirK element.

Neither party yet has been able to command political oedionce to its legislative mandates. If the parties could, v8 would move closer to responsible two-party government. Back in January, when the Democratic Caucus revived atrophied muscles with a series of loyalty-commanding re forms, the House seemed headed in that direction. Speaker of the House Carl Albert warned Democratic mem tiers than that caucus decisions were binding on the floor an2C; any Democratic attempt to challenge them on the floor woug result in expulsion from the caucus. Then, why didn't the Democratic Caucus insist on parffi loyalty cn the jobs bill veto ovei ride? "The cauews? has only invoked such a provision twice in the last 50 yearsS said Joseph Beamon, the knowledgeable director of the "IT'S A SWORD which cuts both ways.

So far. the caucuW has only issued procedural instructions and instructions to confi, mittees. On legislation, the caucus issues a 'sense of the cajg cus' resolution whih is non-binding." So long as the Democrats or Republicans cannot bind theJJJ respective members to the pnr.y's legislative mandates, thejj cannot legislate their philosophies. In Migraines Strike iridiscriminately ft." ii Dr. Steincrohn Someone told me that vegetarianism helps you lose weight.

I've always thought it put on weight and that's why there are so many protein diets. W.B. Well, I can't answer for everybody, but I can answer for one person, and that is me. It has helped me lose weight. And I'm not even a real vegetaria'n.

I eat chicken and fish. One day, though, I bit into a steak, and I couldn't eat it. I soon found out I also didn't like roast beef and lamb and the others. i 1 My feeling is that this could happen to any animal worker particularly someone in such a difficult field as humane slaughter. A friend of mine in California, Dennis Weiner, also gave up eating meat at about the same time I did, In four months, his waist went from 36 inches to 31 inches.

And he did not change his diet in any other way. In fact, he ate more of everything else. Indeed he remembers even eating plenty of cheesecake! The "diet" failed, however, when, it came to his wife. "My wife," he told me, "s'jpped eating meat the same time I did, and she didn't los anything." He added, "But then, she only weighed 90 pound to begin with." me, the conscientious doctor often gets a headache trying to make the correct diagnosis. However, presuming that yours are really due to migraine, he will administer medicines to control your discomfort.

Usually these are combinations of ergot and caffeine drugs. Their purpose is to constrict the dilated, pounding arteries in the brain which are causing all the discomfort. Dear Dr. Steincrohn: I have been getting severe headaches for yeari. Aspirin doesn't seem to help.

I have a friend who says I may have migraine. I toll him "Impossible. My IQ isn't high enough!" I've heard only executives, professors and really intelligent people get migraine. I'm only a clerk in a department store. Just a simple sort.

Is it possible that a fellow like me (age 37) can be a vie- ries, intellectual, ethnic, or environmental. It's true that there's a family history of such headaches in about 75 percent of patients. Give your doctor the headache of discovering the cause of your headache. And believe tim of migraine? Mr. E.

COMMENT: Of course it's possible you may be suffering from migraine headaches. Forget the' idea that migraine attacks only those with superior intelligence. Migraine knows po bounda dhT Hotel Party ByASHLEIGH I BRILLIANT BUDAPEST The Duna Intercontinental Hotel, where I am staying, is the hotel where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton stayed while he was filming "Bluebeard." It was at this hotel where Richard tossed that fantastic 40th birthday for his then wife, Elizabeth You know, the one where cham-pagne and caviar flowed hours. I learned that Richard flew a decorator in from Paris-to transform the hotel's ballroom into a wonderland, -and at great expense had Grace Kelly flown in from Monaco in a 727 commercial jet with no one on the plane except her Serene Highness. Now, you know, that's class! He also had Marlon Brando and other celebs flownfin from everywhere on the Continent.

The people who had contact with the Burtons adored him, but had reservations about Liz. It eeems she seldom came out of her suit When she was offered a car and driver, she turned it down, saying she preferred to go there like anyone else does. So she took out her five forints (five cents) and hopped on a street car. She came back the same way. Boy did she win Hungarian Brownie points for this! They are still talking about it.

The Hungarians are also still talking about the rudeness of Raquel Welch, who worked tor one week on "Bluebird." She is considered ill-mannered by those she had. personal contact with, including the dressmakers. I went to the movie studio in Budapest where "Bluebeard" was filmed and didn't hear one nice word about Miss Welch. But they loved Joey Heathertnn, who was also in the film. She was friendly to all those she worked with.

But Raquel, it seems, wa6 her usual unpleasant self. and when- she did, she'd wear a wig and dark glasses as a disguise. Especially one day when there was a huge crowd waiting outside the hotel. It turned out she didn't need the disguise because the crowd was waiting not for Miss Taylor, but for a. star they knew, and liked much better Roger Moore.

"The Saint" Tiis isf very popular on Hungarian television. Yes, every family in Budapest now owns black and white TV set, and can see shows from outside Hungary. The officials and the employes of the Duna have grqat respect for Qrace Kelly-not because of who she but because of her democratic manner. It seems she wanted to go to the national art gallery from the hotel. She asked how the-people of Budapest normally got there and was told most of them go by streetcar.

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