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...shaky economy of his piney-woods district by obtaining pork-barrel projects. A tireless worker, he goes to his office seven days a week, puts in ten hours each weekday. Despite his reputation for vituperative oratory, Patman in person seems more like a grandfatherly American archetype: Baptist, Mason, Elk, Shriner, Eagle and American Legionnaire (all of which he is). Briefly a widower, Patman two years ago married a Texarkana widow in her 70s, whom he had dated as a teenager. People who know him only from bombastic broadsides are often surprised at his cherubic smile, soft voice and gentle blue...
...crisis came to a head at the beginning of the Elk basketball season, when Yale insisted that it would let Langer ruled ineligible by the NCAA because of his participation in last summer's unsanctioned Maccabiah games-play for the Blue varsity. The NCAA took no overt action after Langer's participation in contests with both Fordham and Connecticut, but after he played in an Ivy game, the ECAC issued its ultimatum at its meeting Wednesday in New York...
...several years while writing his thesis on Robert Lowell, and then had moved out to Berkeley. Now he looked like he was from California. That night he read some poems which had appeared in the San Francisco Oracle, talked a lot about a book written by an Indian, Black Elk, and then a drug poem called "STP." There was a party at the House afterwards. Someone had brought a record player and the music was really loud. People were dancing beneath the plaques on the walls; the medieval table had been pushed aside, the wooden chairs were in a corner...
...like to know whether it was because of his talent as a writer or his human qualities." Young Hemingway, whose motto is "to shoot, to write, and to tell the truth," was taken hunting by his hosts, and missed a long shot at a big elk. But the Russians found Patrick's literary tastes right on target. Though he reads and enjoys his father's works (his favorites: Green Hills of Africa and The Snows of Kilimanjaro), he confessed that his favorite writer is Turgenev...
...rebellion begins at Heckletooth Mountain's Logging Unit Three, when Lee Replogle, a 46-year-old Forest Service worker, sees a big bull elk about to gore his pet hound and shoots him in a reflex of instant anger. Elk are out of season, and Replogle has been a dutiful Government employee. But he sees himself as "a punk" and a sucker who has never got anything from a society filled with takers. Near by, the first flames of the fire flicker. Suddenly, he feels a compulsion to prove his manhood by defying the law and packing...