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Most of his other friends he surveys with the same binary vision. He admires Margaret Leighton both personally and professionally; but when she divorces Laurence Harvey, he listens politely to her complaints, then writes in his diary how "it saddens me to see how these silly ladies muck up their lives. The moment they get their hooks into the gentleman of their choice they proceed assiduously to bash the whole thing to pulp with their tantrums and exigence ... It really isn't surprising that homosexuality is becoming as normal as blueberry...
Although Government Department colleagues like James Q. Wilson and Harvey C. Mansfield grab more attention, Verba has led a rather celebrated academic career both at Harvard, where he began teaching in 1973, and at Stanford and the University of Chicago. He has won two American Political Science Association awards for recent books. And from 1977-80, he chaired the Government Department here...
...eight-man police force (seven part time) wrote about 100 traffic tickets a year. That was about it, until George Morgan was hired in June. In just three weeks on the job, Officer Morgan had handed out 53 tickets. Perhaps his worst mistake was giving one to Town Alderman Harvey Penberthy. With Penberthy leading the pack, the angry ticket holders besieged the board of aldermen to rid the town of this new menace. On July 11, Morgan was fired...
...police department resigned in protest over the firing. Unfazed, the aldermen elected one of their own, Shelby Lawson, to replace Mayor Hall. With all the turmoil, however, she quit after two days. Thus it was that the Leadwood aldermen turned to the only man they could trust: Harvey Penberthy, who became the third mayor in less than a week. But Mayor Penberthy, who also runs the town garage, soon learned that holding high public office was no fun. Said he: "Every time I get under the hood of a car, I get a phone call from somebody complaining about something...
...fear of missing the big story, his awe for various world leaders, and his frequent fear for his personal safety. The journalist naturally has an eye for the unusual anecdote MacNeil got directions to a telephone immediately after the Kennedy assassination from a man experts now believe was Lee Harvey Oswald Rather than settle for the stock picture of political strife, he paints a vivid image of a policeman threatening to blow a young organizer's head off with a revolver in a Chicago hotel...