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...have been a diehard Democrat all my life, but until our party is returned to the true Democrats, I will fight vehemently to defeat any candidate who would run under McGovern's banner...
...clearly outshone Germany's Nordic "supermen" to win gold medals in four events. Still, rampant nationalism continues to mock the purported ideals of the Olympics. Since 1952 the focus has been mainly on whether the U.S. team, representing a free, democratic society, could beat the Russians, carrying the banner for Communism. This year, a powerful East German team will be trying to turn the victory stands of Munich into podiums for propaganda on behalf of the "superior" social order in their half of Germany...
PEACE, proclaimed the banner at the head of the procession. The marchers were 3,000 war-weary Catholics from the Lenadoon Avenue district of West Belfast. After the two-week-old cease-fire broke down, Lenadoon Avenue became a no man's land between British troops and I.R.A. guerrillas. The marchers, blankets and belongings in hand, had finally decided to evacuate their homes and bed down in nearby public schools until the fighting eased. Long before they had a chance to consider returning home, all talk of peace was shattered by the worst bombing attack in Ulster...
...could breathe in the atmosphere, I was doing it. My hands were shaking. I got so confused, I tried to write with my cigarette and smoke my pen." When the colors were presented, "waves of patriotism swept over me. I hadn't sung The Star-Spangled Banner since grammar school. It felt real good. I actually got chills...
...Francis Scott Key could not possibly have seen the American flag waving over Fort McHenry on that day in 1814 when he wrote The Star-Spangled Banner. According to Librarian P. William Filby of the Maryland Historical Society, it was raining and it would have taken a gale to move the heavy banner. "What Key probably saw was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole." Concludes Filby: "Key didn't come running ashore crying 'Chaps, I've just produced the national anthem.' " He fitted his new poem to the tune of an English drinking song because...