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...family each one of which has, in turn, been run over by a car, and only a few of which I can remember the names of, including one called Josephine, who was as big as I was, one that my father ran over by mistake while going down the driveway (we had back in New York a big house with a long driveway), and one most recently that was run over by a school bus full of children...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Two Short Essays | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

...main administration building is a white porticoed structure with columns running across the front. It sits on a slight rise along a curving driveway and manages to dominate the main campus. Behind it is the new science center, to its right, a modern building which houses a cafeteria and student center. On the bulletin board of the student center are posters telling about the next meeting of the Black Student Union, as well as a brochure listing the courses offered in their Afro-American curriculum. All over the campus are trees draped with grey-green Spanish moss. To an outsider...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: FOCUS in Perspective: Between Shadow and Act | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...University of Illinois at Urb ana-Champaign, students tried several ways of disrupting the campus. About 200 of them, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society, staged a "grovel-in" in the driveway of University President David D. Henry's house and read off a list of grievances including an appeal for more black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spring of Discontent | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...darkness became the sea, and on the sea the boy saw a sailboat. A beautiful little sailboat, with no one in it, sailed before him. Then suddenly the sailboat disappeared and the boy saw his home, and saw himself, ten or eleven years old, happily playing in the driveway...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

Marooned was the word for Actress Ann-Margret and her husband Roger Smith, after torrential West Coast rains sent tons of mud pouring down onto their Beverly Hills driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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