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Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick looks and speaks like an aristocrat. She wears designer clothes and expensive pearls and comes from New Jersey's fashionably rich Fifth District, where kids learn fox-hunting instead of touch football. Yet, she doesn't belong to the Nancy Reagan-Betsy Bloomingdale school of patrician politics. She has neither time nor patience for the charity-ball circuit where rich Washingtonians raise money for good causes by paying $1000 to be seen in their Halstons. And when she speaks in that throaty, well-bred voice, she talks passionately about the poor--and her concern for them...
...mentions the flood of constitutents who write asking for her help--like the young woman who must leave her mother to the care of a nursing home, because she can't afford to keep her in her own house. As Fenwick's voice gets louder and more desperate describing the predicament, it seems that the Congresswoman has never really accepted the unfairness of life. She tackles the problems just as they come to her, one by one, trying to correct one injustice before moving on to the next. Only, as she says, "There just isn't enough time...
Then his ex-wife marries a small-time Mafia hood who is persuaded by the Justice Department to inform on his colleagues. He is promised a new life and identity in return for his testimony. One night the crook, his bride and Hacklin's children (Heather Bicknell, Andrew Fenwick) are spirited away. The Government not only refuses to tell Hacklin what has become of his children, it blocks his efforts to find them. The conspiracy is expensive and sophisticated; Hacklin is poor and simple. But Caan refuses to heighten this classic confrontation between soulless bureaucracy and the individual...
...fellow ideologues that the Carter address was appallingly weak. Liberals like Ted Kennedy were skeptical of the idea of reconstituting the draft in peacetime. Across the House floor there seemed to be chunks and pieces of a national mosaic but nothing holding them together. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick was most animated when Carter mentioned women's rights. Republicans stirred themselves only slightly above polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts to balance the budget. Each had his or her interest by which to measure the message, but few seemed to bury their special sensitivities...
...family Rallidae, including rails, coots and gallinules. No matter. It is impossible to be disappointed by this handsome book. Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley has brought his ornithological expertise and years of patient watching to bear on these elusive creatures. The 41 color paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne are reproduced so sharply that light seems to glance off eyes and feathers. Ripley furnishes all the required taxonomy for experts-and some doleful news for everyone. Because they fly poorly, these birds are easy prey for predators. Their preferred nesting sites-marshes and coastal wetlands-are being drained by progress...