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Before he went to war in 1965, he is fond of telling visitors, the raciest thing in the media was Clark Gable telling Vivien Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Returning to America from the P.O.W. camps, he had to ask his wife what a massage parlor was. He still sees explicit sex as an "alien element" in our heritage. He passionately wants "to restore patriotism, especially among opinion formers, the people in the media and education." And he is unfazed by opposition, even mockery of his convictions for being naively overwrought...
Hamlin made contacts of a much less serious nature during a one-year stint in Quincy House and he retains several fond memories. He says his advanced age did not bother him that much, though he was disturbed by what he terms "some immaturity...
...have affected other areas of her life. Guests at Harvard functions have described her as "extremely engaging" but also "more formal than is usual," and she is likely to discuss questions of medical ethics at these parties than her personal life. "I am very interested in Harvard and very fond of it as an institution," she told reporters in 1971. adding. "I think I'll let my husband make the policy--if I had been offered the job. I might have some ideas...
...Odre, who had been shot with him in that appalling moment in St. Peter's Square. When a group of 52 schoolchildren gathered below to serenade him with a folk song and offer prayers for his speedy recovery, the Pope sent a messenger bustling down with a fond reply: "I bless you, and I would like to kiss you all, one by one." John Paul even celebrated a birthday; he was an increasingly hearty, if not yet hale...
Coyotes are small (about 30 lbs.), fast, clever and notably fond of mutton chops. For years U.S. sheepmen have trapped them, shot them from airplanes, and laid out wholesale poisons. But in 1972 the Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...