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More kith and kin gathered. The three eldest children???Kathleen, 16, Joseph, 15, and Robert, 14?were allowed to see their father. Andy Williams, George Plimpton, Rafer Johnson and others peeked in. The even rise and fall of the patient's chest offered some reassurance; the blackened eyes and the pallor of cheeks that had been healthy and tanned a few hours before were frightening...
...midst of this unparalleled abundance, another nation dwells in grinding deprivation. It comprises the 29,700,000 Americans who are denied access to the wealth that surrounds them ?a group three times the population of Belgium. They are the men, women and children???black, white, red, yellow and brown?who live below the "poverty line...
...problem," says NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft. As often as not, Mr. Mac himself would turn up at Cape Kennedy for a 3 a.m. breakfast with departing astronaut crews. To help him recall who was who, he invariably carried a small black notebook crammed with the names of wives, children???and even their dogs. "Mr. Mac is an anachronism," says NASA's Paul Haney. "There's a measured cadence in working with him that's refreshing?the same aura that was Henry Ford...
Just as Willie goes vigorously to the whip to let a horse know who is boss, so William Hartack Sr. wielded a switch with old-fashioned regularity to keep his kids in line. He had three children???Bill Jr., 8, Evelyn, 9, and Maxine. 1? when his wife Nancy died on Christmas morning of 1940 as the result of an automobile crash. He was far too busy scratching out a marginal living as a Colver. Pa. coal-miner to indulge his family in any subtle systems of discipline. "I used to take the stick a lot to Billy," father Hartack...
...Lennie has been "hard to live with?but what man worth living with isn't? And every now and then he just makes you want to cry, 'Oh, thank you for loving me!'" Despite her porcelain fragility. Felicia soon instilled some fireside virtues in her man. They have two children??? Jamie, 5, and Alexander Serge (named for Koussevitzky). 19 months?and live in a nine-room duplex just cater-cornered from Carnegie Hall. But Lennie's fierce energy makes it hard for him to relax; when he plays with the children, reports Felicia, "he plays too hard, throws them...