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...mother. Paul tells Jeanne at one point: "My father was a drunk, a screwed-up bar fighter. My mother was also a drunk. My memories as a kid are of her being arrested. We lived in a small town, a farming community. I used to have to milk a cow every morning and every night, and I liked that. But I remember one time I was all dressed up to take this girl to a basketball game. My father said, 'You have to milk the cow,' and I said, 'Would you please milk...
NICKNAME: The Laughing Cow. So dubbed by his mother when he was 13, as the first noticed his strange table manners and unique eating technique. (Never caused Steve any embarassment outside the home until last year when he attended the Big Green's Hall of Fame Dinner in Hanover and he attempted to snatch up some rice pilaf from his plate. For the first time he could remember since junior high his grazing ability failed and he ended up with a snout full of red and white tablecloth. Not wishing to attract attention. Steve continued to munch away until...
...talk. "I grew up thinking that the only way one spent a Sunday afternoon was discussing politics," recalls Eleanor. Her father, a local politician who went on to become the Democratic county chairman, never missed an F.D.R. fireside chat. By the time she was 13, Eleanor could milk a cow as expertly as her father could. Soon she could milk an argument almost as well. The twins joined the high school debating team, and that is how Eleanor met George McGovern...
...week's meeting will necessarily stand in the long shadow of Richard Nixon's summit of last February, it will also surely rank as one of the great symbolic events of the postwar era-an Asian counterpart of Willy Brandt's travels to Warsaw and Mos cow in 1970. Tanaka's arrival in Peking comes almost 35 years to the day after full-fledged war broke out between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Japan's invading Imperial Army in 1937. It is only one of the ironies of the summit that Tanaka...
Both Jencks and Inequality are iconoclasts. Because he attacks almost every sacred cow in education and "ecommends politically radical solutions, the book is sure to cause mounting controversy. Inequality is bound to have some effect on the upcoming presidential election as both sides cite the portions of the research that support their beliefs. Whether or not the book will ever advance Jencks's beliefs and his call for open reform is still open to question. But at least he's got people thinking...