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...millions of big-city workers, children and grandchildren of immigrants, Happy Warrior Smith, grandson of immigrants, was a symbol of hopes and aspirations, living proof that in America a boy born to poverty, a member of ethnic and religious minorities, could nevertheless rise very high. Smith's opposition to Prohibition appealed to the big-city minority groups, who looked upon the 18th Amendment as an imposition by the Protestant majority. But the very aspects of Al Smith that endeared him to big-city working-class Americans of Irish, Latin, Slavic and Jewish origins tended to repel older-stock Protestant...
...suffered in the major cities. By all accounts, a major crisis of conscience occurred, for the more sophisticated city voters (whose votes cannot as easily be bought as in the rural barrios) were protesting the Garcia government's record of influence-peddling, nepotism and mismanagement. "Will my grandchildren think I was a good President?" Garcia asked an aide. Manila cynics suggested that another question was running through his mind: Will the voters think so at the next election...
There was no fanfare, no fancy set-only an elderly gentleman surrounded by four of his grandchildren in the yard of their home at Pound Ridge, N.Y. It seemed strange to see such a family group gathered anywhere but before a television set. To Poet-Playwright Archibald (J.B.) MacLeish, 67, it was quite natural; he was reading from the works of his late fellow poet, Walter de la Mare, just as MacLeish had read poetry to his own children years...
...hedge is advisable, for most Russian parents need persuasion. Despite the Communist edict that mothers stick to bearing and let the state do the rearing, Russians prefer more ancient practice-and so do their preachers. Khrushchev's own grandchildren are not in boarding schools, nor are those of his Kremlin colleagues. Most boarding-school children are enrolled because of special circumstances, e.g., overlarge families. Russians able to support their children do not easily surrender them, and the millions of Russians who still place God above Marx may never do so. By this year's end, Russia will have...
...Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across the valley, the casket was lowered into the grave. Williams left 42 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, 64 great-great-grandchildren and 59 great-great-great-grandchildren. He also left a cherished legend: last week Houston Mayor Lewis Cutrer proclaimed the day of his death as Walter Williams Civil War Memorial...