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...sometimes their own. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Richard J. Davis, who is running for the Senate, announced at a press conference last week that as a mortgage banker he has had to lay off 40% of his employees. Said Davis: "I know what the economy is doing. I see it firsthand." In Montana, Congressional Candidate Howard Lyman is emphasizing rather than downplaying the fact that he had to sign over his ranch to creditors right in the middle of his campaign to unseat Ron Marlenee. "I'm a victim of Reaganomics," Lyman tells sympathetic audiences. "I'm a living...
...office--furnish him with years more of reflection on "how being here changes some people's lives." And occasionally circumstances allow him to continue the observation, through the expedient of a seat on the committees a that award the Sheldon, the knox, or the Luce. "You get a firsthand experience of the intensity of scholarly work--this incredibly esoteric stuff on the tsetse fly or whatever they a want to work...
Allison Brown, daughter of an old white Mississippi family, honor student, campus beauty and editor of the Meredith issue of the Ole Miss magazine, has written for her editorial: "We are of a generation in Mississippi who knows firsthand that blacks and whites can actually work together, grow up together, and share common experiences. Even at Ole Miss, where tradition hangs on until the very last thread, much progress has been made . . . Our generation can do something about it. We can work toward the inevitable changes that will make Ole Miss a better place for people of all races...
...social services. Activist Randall Forsberg, referring to last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejection of a freeze resolution, said, "We will remember that vote in November." Other speakers remembered August 1945: survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings spoke in Japanese, translated for the crowd, of their firsthand visions of "a living inferno...
...Hardy ever have his Tess firsthand. As a young architectural draftsman specializing in church restoration, he courted Emma Gilford, a solicitor's daughter. It proved to be a mismatch worthy of one of his own plots. "What very strange marriages literary men seem to make," Fanny, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, remarked after meeting Emma. She might have said the same thing after meeting Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, who suffered from chronic depression. Typing up poetry that addressed Emma as "woman much missed" did little to cheer up the second...