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...coup against Villeda, an ardent supporter of the Alliance for Progress program, was staged just 10 days before a national presidential election had been scheduled...
Wallace earned his way through the University of Alabama driving taxicabs and slinging hash. He was a big man on campus, a smiling gladhander with the ability to get good grades without excessive study, and he was fascinated by politics. Wallace was, among other things, an ardent New Dealer. Recalls George LeMaistre, who taught Wallace in law school: "In his mind, Franklin Roosevelt couldn't do anything wrong...
Prise Hartshorn, an ardent New Dealer, decides her baby should be weaned the modern way, on a bottle. Her husband, Sloan, a pediatrician, insists on breast feeting. "There was a side of Sloan, she had decided, that she mistrusted, a side that could be summed up by saying that he was a Republican. Up to now this had not mattered; most men she knew were Republicans--it was almost part of being a man. But she did not like the thought of a Republican controlling the destinies of a helpless baby...
Aneurin Bevan, by Michael Foot. A good, sympathetic biography of the Welsh mine worker who went on to become an ardent Socialist, a brilliant parliamentarian and, for years, the fieriest voice in Britain's Labor Party...
BILLY AL BENGSTON, 29, an ardent affluent-society motorcyclist (he owns four), goes in for concentric emblems, usually centered on a symbol such as a sergeant's stripes. Bengston sometimes uses an auto-body painter's spray gun to lay on glossy hot-rodder colors. "I use a lot of the concepts used in motorcycles," he says. "It's a kind of companionship I can understand...