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...addition, a handicapped parkgoer said his entrance to the facility was obstructed by the motorcade. Eric Dietrich, a 28-year old local resident, said he had to take his wheelchair off the pavement and onto the grass because the cars were blocking the service road...
...America possesses a special instrument of change and reform -- what might be called the civic crusade. These grass-roots movements about particular issues have repeatedly forced the more rigid political system to follow: in the fight against racial discrimination, the movement for women's equality, the drive for fair treatment of homosexuals, the environmental movement, the campaign against smoking and many others. Not everybody is comfortable with all these crusades and the rights they champion. But they represent an extraordinary American capacity to change perceptions and habits...
...Crimson must shake its lethargy by Saturday, when it hosts Cornell at Cumnock Field. The game marks a return to natural grass for the Crimson, which has played its last two contests on unfamiliar artificial turf...
...aide asks, "Have you even seen a grass-roots campaign like this?" I say, Yes, I covered George Wallace in 1968 and 1972. Yet the dynamics are as different here as is the candidate. The early Wallace was a colorful Southern racist, at one with his followers' ancient prejudices. Duke is a smooth outsider, an intellectual of an alien ideology who has tempered his appeal to fit people's anxieties...
...Houck was ousted from his Missouri River bottomland to make way for the Oahe reservoir. He moved to the plains northwest of Fort Pierre, S. Dak., and put his purebred cattle on grass. They were devastated in the 1966 blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks...