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When Henry Kissinger returned to Germany in 1945 as a U.S. Army sergeant, he discovered a friend from Furth who had survived the concentration camps. He watched over him during his recovery, and when he left to live with an aunt in the U.S., Kissinger tried to prepare her. The survivors, he wrote, "had seen man from the most evil side. Who can blame them for being suspicious...
...hard peacenik ("I was no phony...l was bona fide. I sucked off Jerry Gracia."). But despite her commitment to hippiedom, Bubbles still has a lot of internalized racism knocking around in her drug-addled brain. So her Black maid, who is a sort of cross between Aunt Jemima and Medusa, puts a voodoo spell on Bubbies, giving her a mysterious case of 'negrophobia...
...want a real smoke screen, however, look to Ross Perot. He doesn't seem to have a clue about the deficit, beyond comparing it to "a crazy aunt that we won't take out of the basement." Perot takes great umbrage when anyone tries to get him to explain how he would attack it. Does he favor higher taxes? No . . . Well, yes . . . Well, maybe. So far, the most specific program Perot has been able to describe would balance the budget by (shades of Michael Dukakis!) taxing the "underground economy" and (shades of the Grace Commission!) eliminating waste and fraud...
Aside from an aunt, McDougall was the first inhis family to attend any college. When he came toHarvard, he recalls, "there was a total of about60 people of African descent" at the entireUniversity...
...forerunner of future phoning patterns, is simple. Anyone who signs up -- there are about 6 million subscriptions to go around -- gets a new number with a 700 area code. Subscribers pay $25 up front and $7 a month after that. Then the number travels with you forever. Visit Aunt Martha and your calls will follow you into her parlor. Move to a new neighborhood or a new state -- keep the same number. All it takes is 27 digits punched into the nearest phone, and calls made to the 700 number will be routed there by AT&T's computers (that...