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...York. The team's owners swear the Yankees have not the slightest intention of moving to another town, but eager fans with long memories were not so sure. So they yanked out rows of wooden seats, tore signs from walls, and scooped up souvenir clumps of grass to take home. Fittingly enough, first base went to Mrs. Lou Gehrig in honor of her husband who once guarded it so well, and home plate went to Mrs. Babe Ruth, whose husband minced across it triumphantly so many times...
Bill Cohen is a 33-year-old freshman Congressman from Maine's second district. A liberal Republican and formerly the mayor of Bangor, he upset his opponent in the 1972 elections after walking 600 miles through Maine in an effort to meet the voters and acquire the grass-roots support necessary in a district the size of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island combined...
From the Diary of a Snail is less the expression of a political platform or even a philosophy than of Grass's character...
Tired, sobered down, almost choking over his "on-the-one-hand, on-the-other" game plan, Grass still has more endurance, wit, sheer cantankerousness than a pair of polarized extremists half his age. "What's progress?" he asks stubbornly (and who else would have the courage and humor to use that old-fashioned word in the age of apocalypse...
...Being a little quicker than the snail," replies Father Grass, tucking everybody snugly in, "... and never getting there, children." Holy Spaceship Earth! Leaping Electronic Village! Could this agitator for 19th century liberalism be right...