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...there were still 80 fans in the stands at the baseball field with its P.A. system and official scorekeeper and electric scoreboard--and six fans sitting on blankets in foul territory at the softball field listening to the national anthem float over from the neighboring field. And even if attendance showed up as color commentary in an article, or in the tiny print at the bottom of a scoring box, we never cast judgment...
...three-day roundup is as much carnival as hunt. It begins with a parade down Sweetwater's Broadway (antique cars; the Girl Scouts Troop No. 114 float; the Sweetwater High band; Dr. Michael Dainer, the town ob-gyn, with his Clydesdale and buggy; the Nolan County sheriff's posse) and a beauty-queen contest in which 21 of the town's young women vie for a scholarship prize of $1,000 and the title Miss Snake Charmer...
...stopping at this amusement center where a farmer took an old wheat silo, lined it with padding, and put a DC-4 engine at the bottom. We'll put on parachute gear and just float around for a while," Constan says...
Nurses tell more troubling tales. Some are required to "float" into sections of the hospital where they have no experience; others must work beyond the point of exhaustion with no backup. Cook County Hospital's O'Flaherty contends that it is not at all unusual for a nurse to be confronted with two patients requiring emergency attention at the same time. Once on the scene, of course, nurses are legally liable; they cannot refuse to work, however impossible the situation. The only recourse for many is to fill out a form protesting the assignment. This does not absolve them...
...campaign proceeds in a dreamy weightlessness. Multiple images of multiple candidates float through the night air -- the bright auditorium, the shiny "hopefuls." The audience almost unconsciously makes a ritual calculation. They do not judge the men on the issues, really, so much as on the unarticulated question of gravitas. Which of the candidates has the weight, the size, the something, to become President...