Word: groups
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...made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...North sponsored by Jesse Helms of North Carolina. But Helms was persuaded by Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden to expand the bill so that it would apply to all former military men convicted of similar crimes. If the House concurs, Congress will be favoring government pensions to a select group of convicted felons who served in the military. Not that Ollie needs the money. He earns an estimated $25,000 a speech...
...reflections are triggered by a chance encounter. On a sabbatical in Italy, reading for a change rather than writing, the narrator wanders through Florence and comes upon a small gallery exhibiting photographs from Peru. One of them arrests his attention. It shows a group of Amazonian Indians arranged in a circle around a standing figure, who seems to have his audience enraptured. The spectator recognizes the name of the tribe captured in the picture: the Machiguengas. He is also convinced he knows the identity of the mysterious speaker. It must be Saul Zuratas, a close friend when both were university...
Many of the new migrants are young, middle-class families from Los Angeles and Orange County. According to University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky, their flight represents the first net "out migration" of this trendsetting group in the state's history. They are relatively skilled and prosperous, and mobile enough to escape Southern California's well- advertised problems of traffic, smog and crime. Many are so-called equity emigres who cash in on their California houses to acquire equivalent property near Puget Sound at literally half the price. Last month's Northern California earthquake, however, has had little impact...
...popularity may signal a geologic shift in late-night TV. The rise and fall of potential rivals to Carson -- from Alan Thicke to Joan Rivers -- has become an industry joke. But Hall is the first to catch on, and he has done it by reaching out to a new group of viewers. It is not Carson's audience, Hall likes to point out, but Carson's audience's children. "The Tonight show is an institution," says Steve Allen, who started it all back in 1954. "But with each tick of the clock, its advantage disappears. The Tonight show audience...