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...become the town's toxic-waste spokesman and organizer. Last fall, says McCalip, "it would get really yucky in the lunchroom." Nauseated children were being sent home early. One day in November he evacuated the whole school, all 21 students. "The wind died down, and the odors got so darn bad. The fumes started rolling into our classrooms, more than we'd ever experienced before. Mrs. Wickham, the other teacher here, said she couldn't continue, I was already sick, and it was hard to breathe." School was closed for two days...
...Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...
...world's richest, coldest, frailest and ditsiest women. Edwina had engaged the services of a swami, sect undetermined, to transfer her mind and soul at the moment of death into the healthy body of Terry (Victoria Tennant), the daughter of one of her servants. Then, darn the luck, the sacred urn containing Edwina's essence fell out of a window and onto Roger in the street below. The left side of his body and mind is still male, still Roger, and not a little vexed at having to share the place with an uncongenial new tenant; the right...
...opponents refused to debate her in the 1981 campaign, she challenged him to "come out and fight like a man." Whitmire says she is content running the nation's fourth largest city and has no vice-presidential ambitions. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle: "She's a darn good mayor, a very impressive woman and smart as a whip. But I think people are going to be a little bit reluctant to buy the idea that you can jump from mayor to the vice presidency or presidency...
...sell shoes in the wintertime." Generally, he faults his own generation, himself included, for resolving that its children would have everything better, depriving them in that way. "They don't play any better now than we did. There are just so many of them that play so darn well. But if they never had to win enough on Friday to pay the rent, I wonder if deep down they can know what's really inside them." Or exactly who they are. -By Tom Callahan