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Until recently most illegal Mexican aliens have sought work and haven closer to home; generally they went in search of agricultural jobs in the Southwest. But now aspiring immigrants have started to head for the industrial cities of the Midwest. The majority aim for Chicago, where they can quickly fade into the city's Latin population of 300,000. One observer close to the Mexican community estimates that as many as 75,000 mojados are now in the Second City...
...Herald Tribune folded, and soon the cold war began to fade as a big, continuing story. Freidin found himself adrift, his expertise devalued, the demand for his byline sinking. It is a common situation for aging journalists who have committed themselves to one subject or cause. "I wanted to do a book on the States," he recalls, "but my problem was how I could get an angle. I went to the 1968 conventions, and at the Republican Convention I met Murray Chotiner...
...victory for one side or the other. Perhaps America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated that American social obsessions-from Know Nothingism to McCarthyism -have a life cycle of four to five years. After that they quickly fade. The generational battle was true to the norm...
...floor of the massive and cement-columned Harvard Stadium mystified a college generation. Crone.... a man who in a brief and fleeting moment at the end of a Yale football game, simultaneously snatched fame and infamy from the miasma of Harvard athletic history. End-zone Crone, a man fading, pumping, scrambling with an effortless inviolability, zeroing in like a computerized homing pigeon, tightening and tightening the frantic gyre until he could settle to his knees on that corner of the Endzone,clutching a football with a pregnant, held sigh, heaving that sigh, and mumbling, "Here, at least, is a spot...
...last session, Dean sank into an easy chair, Maureen near him. He agreed to discuss the personal aspects of his week that was with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, who had followed him to his home. The cool, meticulous and rather scholarly-looking Dean of the hearings seemed to fade away, as did (at least in his own mind) the earlier Dean, deeply involved in the illegal and unsavory acts. A third Dean emerged, still pleading his case but giving a strangely sentimental picture of his life...