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...Groton, Mass...
...ladies never did. She was born in New York--perhaps her worst offense. She wore diamonds in her hair. She had an affair with an incipiently bad novelist. She wore French dresses, she collected rubies. She let the painter John Singer Sargent chase her all over the gym at Groton, showed up at the Church of the Advent one Lenten Sunday to scrub the steps as penance for what followed...
More Buttons. To avoid that, Schlesinger said, the President had to be allowed to respond in kind?for example, to destroy the submarine base at Murmansk in exchange for a hypothetical initial Russian obliteration of the U.S. base at Groton, Conn. Says Schlesinger: "We cannot allow the Soviets unilaterally to obtain a counterforce option that we ourselves lack. We must have a symmetrical balancing of the strategic forces on both sides...
...bottom up as well as from the top down. Take, for example, the case of the novelist and short-story writer Louis Auchincloss. In part because he is widely read, he has been consistently snubbed by what is conveniently called the critical community. Auchincloss, 56, a graduate of Groton and Yale and a practicing Wall Street lawyer, writes mainly about the declines and cushioned falls of good-family New Yorkers. He is a lucid, confident and tidy observer of this small community; yet many critics (expecting, maybe, Henry James) refuse to accept Auchincloss as the teller of well-tailored stories...
...John Robinson West has survived wealth, good looks, Groton, the University of North Carolina, Temple law school-and a job at the White House. This week he is planning to declare himself a Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania's Fifth District...