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...This is an enormous danger. I don't see that threat with this Administration. But if American society does not solve its problems and restore its fortunes, it will be tempting for some to say, 'Well, let's return to our own backyard, withdraw our forces from Europe and elsewhere, and take care of ourselves.' That would be a nightmare for Europe. It's why we have to link the U.S. to Europe...
...sense of discipline comes from his mother Florence, a no-nonsense woman who ran a nursery school in her backyard, and his late father Andrew, who served briefly as an elementary school principal. Lamar began piano lessons at four and studied diligently through his freshman year at Vanderbilt. Today he can deftly play Chopin or pound out rocket-top country piano, as he did in Bourbon Street watering holes while clerking for Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom after his 1965 graduation from New York University law school...
...generations, Americans have largely defined their country and, to some extent, themselves in terms of the cold war. From McCarthyism to backyard bomb shelters, from the arms race to the space race, from Alger Hiss to the Marine spy scandal -- whatever else might have changed, the cold war abided. Moreover, it all too often metastasized into an honest-to-goodness shooting war, as in Korea and Vietnam. Now, however, only the most troglodytic right- wingers refuse to acknowledge that a new era has dawned. Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Years ago, when I was at the agency, from time...
...inexpensive children's cycles, now is making top-of-the-line Paramount mountain bikes priced as high as $3,000. Ed Schwinn Jr., who heads the firm co-founded by his family in 1895, concedes that the bicycle business is still fundamentally an industry built on the ideas of backyard inventors. Says he: "We look at what the tinkerers are trying to accomplish and adapt the best of that...
...most of the world's major political figures trip through: Presidents and kings, commissars and emerging Third World statesmen. One anecdote relates that the young Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were missing at the house during a visit. The spiritual leaders of Tibetans were found in the backyard playing around a wigwam with the Gandhi boys...