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...soon besieged by relatives, charities and causes that want to share the presumed riches. One Air Force sergeant who won the Maryland lottery was asked to contribute to UFO research. Dominic Barisano, 63, won the jackpot in Massachusetts, only to give away so much to his four children, 13 grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters that he had no money to pay his income taxes. Says his wife Concetta, 61: "I'm a little sorry we won. One of my grandchildren told me, 'It's like you're a millionaire...
...Russell Baker of the New York Times, one of the most literate of campaign jesters, finds that he has been devoting much of his election-year commentary to what he calls "common middle-class living experiences," like tennis, money, the strength of paper towels and the growing shortage of grandchildren ("Our kids aren't having kids any more"). These domestic dissertations, he reports, draw vastly more reader mail than his essays on politics...
...strongly developed sense of family-not merely the nuclear one, but the broadsword virtues of the clan. This is partly because many Southern families have lived in the same territory for five or six generations, growing, spreading, developing deeper ties. To a largely rootless and mobile nation, children or grandchildren of the immigrant experience, this familial feeling seems foreign. Explains Spalding: "It is comforting for a Southerner, in a strange, hostile and wicked world, to know who he is, that someone will send his daughter a wedding present or come to his funeral...
...executives in exhaustive planning sessions. Twice a week he breaks the routine and plays golf. Lee returns to his palace, pottery and peacocks by 5 p.m. He usually dines alone, then plots new ways to increase his wealth. Preferring the glitter of Seoul, his wife, eight children and 20 grandchildren live apart from Korea's richest...
...American, you have 200 years of independence behind you. We have not been independent for 20 years. What are 20 years in the life of a country or a continent? When we've been going 200 years, our grandchildren will have made certain progress. We have our problems. But things will come. What were the first 20 years like in America...