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Happily, all went peacefully at a Buckingham Palace powwow marking the 100th anniversary of treaties between the ancestors of six Canadian Indians and Elizabeth's great-great-grand-mum Queen Victoria. The Indians had surrendered 163,900 sq. mi. in Alberta and Saskatchewan in exchange for a guarantee of hunting and fishing rights. A dam in the area has made that promise a debt unpaid, however, and "in 1967 the Indians complained to Queen Elizabeth. "She said she would look into the matter," recalls Chief John Snow. The Indians are now seeking redress in a legal court instead of a royal one, so last week Snow and his colleagues decided not to commit lese majesty. "We talked about the feathers in my headdress," said Snow. Great White Mothers, apparently, are pretty much like Great White Fathers: not too helpful.
Henry Kissinger "oozed conceit from every pore," John Mitchell was "the most efficient Attorney General we have had for a long, long time," and Mississippi Senator John Stennis of filibuster fame is "one of the broadest-minded Americans I ever knew." Those views of Vermont Republican George Aiken, 83, dean of the U.S. Senate until his retirement last year, were published recently in his Senate Diary, January 1972-January 1975 (The Stephen Greene Press). One noteworthy Aikenism based on 34 years in the Senate: "The politicians I have known are no greater or lesser sinners than the average person listed in the telephone book."
They came not to harry Harry but to help him. Harry Reems, that is,'the actor convicted on obscenity charges in Tennessee for his singular stint with Linda Lovelace in Deep Throat. When Mike Nichols, Colleen Dewhurst, Ben Gazzara, Gay Talese and Ramsey Clark gathered last week at a New York fund raiser for Reems' appeal, the talk was of civil liberties, not licentiousness. The celebrities fear that allowing Bible Belt morality to cinch Harry's trousers will stifle creativity. "It's not about taste," said Nichols. "It's about freedom of expression. People should be free to explore anything they are moved to." A second worry: the Reems case sets a precedent for criminal prosecution of actors whose movie roles may be deemed obscene in some localities but not in others.
It was enough to make an eagle blush. There, dressed in her victory sash and shoes, before a gala Bicentennial backdrop was San Diego's own Nona Montague, 28, who had just been crowned Miss Nude U.S.A. in San Bernardino, Calif. Among the 17 judges was Comedian Bill Dana. "I found the sexiest part of the day to be when the girls first came out to be judged," reports Dana. "They all had their clothes on. When they disrobed, it lost a little."