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When Reagan went horseback riding at Quantico, Va., Ruge, who spent some of his boyhood on the backs of his father's Percherons, watched with a certain nostalgia from the fences. "The President is a marvelous physical specimen," he said. "His very demeanor shows that he is healthy...
Fans will recognize the plot, which started unwinding several weeks ago in many parts of the country. But with 4½ additional hours, the writers have been able to introduce entirely new characters and create scenes that the film only hinted at. Luke Skywalker's best friend and boyhood hero, Biggs Starfighter, makes an appearance, for example, and the audience is in on the beginning of the most thrilling romance since Romeo and Juliet -the first encounter between Artoo Detoo and See Threepio...
...accused a boyhood friend, Waldo Quarles, of running over his cat. As the argument flared, Quarles pulled out a gun and shot Wright. Quarles was arrested...
...Reagan, the Saturday voice out of the cornfields, bringing the Big Ten football games. There is Drake McHugh of Kings Row, right off the screen of the Grand Theater, and Lieut. George Custer from Santa Fe Trail and the Gipper from Knute Rockne, All American and a hundred other boyhood flashbacks. There too is the President of the U.S., still the most powerful single authority in the world...
...first night at home, above his family's tavern in Olyphant (pop. 5,138), Michael Metrinko looked out the window at the gently falling snow. "I knew at that moment that at last it was over," he says. "There I was, standing in the bedroom of my boyhood. Nobody was threatening me. No one was calling for my death. I was home...