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...marry Bush over 35 years ago, after they had met at a dance while both were home on Christmas vacation. Mrs. Bush maintains that "I'm a nester" who likes nothing better than to putter around their home in Houston on weekends. Nonetheless, she campaigns tirelessly for Bush???and unlike Nancy Reagan, who generally prefers to be on a platform with her husband and close at hand, Barbara Bush often goes off on her own separate campaign tours...
...taken on expeditions with his famous parents and learned to recognize fossils almost before he could talk. His childhood conversations were filled with the anatomical, geological and biological jargon of anthropology. His father ?a Church of England missionary's son who was raised almost entirely in the African bush???taught "bushcraft" to Richard and his brothers Jonathan and Philip by sending them out to scavenge and survive in the wild. But as Richard grew up, he became restive living in the shadow of strong-willed and often autocratic Louis Leakey. "I was determined to make my own name...
...people have to experience." The prospect of a premarital affair for her teen-age daughter: "I wouldn't be surprised . . . But I'd want to know pretty much about the young man." Her candor is deliberate. Says she: "You're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush???you just meet yourself coming around the bush the other...
...feudin' and fussin' among Lone Star Democrats, benefited from renewed dissension and managed to hang onto Lyndon Johnson's old seat against Democratic Attorney General Waggoner Carr, 48. The G.O.P. also elected two Congressmen?one of them Houston Oilman George Bush, 42, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush???bringing the party's congressional strength back to what it was before the 23-member Texas delegation went solidly Democratic...