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Humphrey never achieved his goal of becoming President, but in the nation's capital as well as in the heartland, he was honored as if he had. Not only was his body flown to Washington on the plane that had carried the bodies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but it also lay in state beneath the dome of the Capitol Rotunda on the same bier that had held Abraham Lincoln and J.F.K...
...Wizard of Oz lives 110 stories above the ground, on a bridge connecting the twin towers of Manhattan's World Trade Center. The Beatles-or pretty good substitutes-are alive, well and together in a corn-belt Shangri-la called Heartland, U.S.A. The Age of Aquarius has dawned again in Central Park, and the hippies are back selling their gospel of love and kindness. And down at the high school they are wearing pegged pants and leather jackets, as John Travolta, the heartthrob of the '70s, gives a belated tour...
Sadat's astonishing voyage to the heartland of his enemy sent commentators groping for comparisons, and their choices helped put some measure on the rarity of the event. Cairo's leading newspaper, al-Ahram, judged the meeting of Sadat and Begin?the one a devout Muslim, the other a deeply religious Jew?to be the most important of its kind since the Prophet Mohammad made a covenant with the Jews of Medina 1,355 years ago. Some religious Jews even saw the Sadat-Begin meeting foreshadowed in the Torah text for the Sabbath (Vayishlach) to be read at prayer services...
Fidrych's descriptions of minor league life are the most colorful passages in the dialogue. Traveling through America's rural heartland, he plays in such populous cities as Thetford Mines, W. Va., and Bristol, Tenn. This is old time baseball, where Fidrych says "the game is still played." He recounts the pleasurable squalor of the "Jim Dandy Trailer Park," remembering how they whiled away the listless backwater hours with beer and cards. In contrast, his entry into the big leagues is a step into national limelight. Within two months of his first professional start, he is the best pitcher...
Isolated in the heartland of the Dark Continent, the Afrikaners were relatively untouched by the liberalizing forces that swept Europe and America in the 19th century. Nor were their ranks infused with the new blood of Dutch immigrants from what had long ceased to be a homeland across the seas. After the Boer War, the Afrikaners were second-class citizens in what they regarded as their only country. Their solution was to take refuge in and inspiration from their churches and societies?notably the mysterious Broederbond?which knit the community together, and to wait for a time when political power...