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...Christian Crusader is a closet queen! The only thing that could shock me now would be to find out that Madeline O'Hare is a closet Christian...
...liberal-to-left wing of the Democratic Party is especially dubious, fearing that his independence may be a camouflage for a closet conservative. He is also not part of the old-boy liberal network. When he won in New Hampshire, liberals held some anguished meetings about what to do. Says Joseph Duffey, director of the American Association of University Professors: "The anti-Carter sentiment is the cultural provincialism of a group that finds it hard to relate to someone who is neither a knee-jerk liberal nor an ideologue." Mark Shields, a Washington-based Democratic campaign consultant, believes the "problem...
Patty added that she had not been armed, but conceded that weapons were easily available to her. Browning drove the point home: "So you could have, had you wanted to, gone into the closet and gotten a weapon at almost any time that the others were asleep, is that right...
Churning Mob. Patty was escorted up to No. 6 on the third floor-an unoccupied studio apartment that had been rented to the S.L.A. for $125 a month. One by one, the jurors walked into the closet that Patty said had been her jail for about four weeks. It was 19 in. wide and 60 in. long. Albert Johnson, Bailey's portly assistant, could not squeeze inside. Patty briefly entered the chamber. "She cried, she sobbed," Johnson reported. "I had to hold her up. I thought she was going to faint." White as death, Patty was hustled...
...sped off on a 20-minute drive to Daly City. She was taken to a small, neat tract home where she said she had first been held by the S.L.A. after her abduction. Patty and the jurors looked at the first closet, which was 24 in. wide and 66 in. long. (The house is now owned by a family that leases the closet-which is kept locked-to the FBI for an incredible $299 a month. The owner complains that the FBI is in arrears.) Patty was close to collapse as she looked at the cell where she said...