Word: footpaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among his many other little pleasures are playing a middling game of tennis and jogging up to a mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...
...classes are held in a school-house on a hill above Nova Friburgo. The road to the school stops just beyond the door and turns into a footpath that leads up the hill to the shantytown that is home for most of the Mobral students. There are three classrooms, and at night about 80 students crowd onto the two-man benches to learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them...
...rather a palpable feeling of unease and fear that made it easy to persuade people not to see what they were looking at, not to hear what was said -in short, not to interfere. That atmosphere hung heavy at Dinh Binh, a tiny hamlet two miles down a mud footpath from the nearest village big enough to have a helicopter pad. At high noon, clusters of Vietnamese stood idly between the Catholic church and the school that housed the polling stations. Why was no one voting? "It's lunchtime," a national policeman explained. Reminded that the polls were...