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...time of trouble and lousy strife, You still have a darlint plan. You still can turn to a brighter life, A pint of plain is your only...
...tapped to lead the bureau to brighter days has an exemplary record. After two hitches in the Navy (top rank: lieutenant) and degrees from Amherst College and Washington University School of Law, Webster entered private practice. Richard Nixon appointed him as a U.S. district court judge in 1971 and to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1973. When Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired in 1975, Webster was one of the first eleven people recommended to the American Bar Association as a possible replacement...
...steelworker, a supermarket checker, a teacher, a switchboard operator and a parking-lot attendant. The cast exuberantly hauls around ladders, scaffolds and dollies to tunes written for the show by James Taylor and others. The message? Says Terkel, whose book was based on 135 taped interviews: "Working people are brighter than we think. Their jobs may be drab, but they transcend them." Terkel is beginning another oral history about "more intangible things, what happens to our dreams as kids, illusion and disillusion." The title: American Dreams: Lost & Found...
...After posing in front of one of her paintings in Washington's National Gallery, she spent her birthday strolling in the woods on a friend's New Jersey farm. Happy to return to New Mexico, she stepped off the plane and pronounced: "The stars are so much brighter here...
Harvard students who walk to and from the Quad at night will find their trips a little brighter next month, when the City of Cambridge turns on new lights it has installed in the Cambridge Common...