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Harvard students helped the hotel staff contain the boisterous group of high-school students, who represented more than 100 schools in 30 states. Harvard chaperones also had to try to enforce the 12:30 a.m. curfew, set before the convention as a safety precaution...
Although a complete accounting is impossible, most of the victims have now been found, he says. They included actors, writers, directors, American culture, and the right of free expression. The father of the high-school girl friend, for example, had been a prominent scriptwriter before he was blacklisted for "subversive" activities and forced to find work parking cars. The chess teacher was J. Edward Bromberg, an actor who died shortly after he was compelled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in ill-health and against doctor's orders. The law school friend's mother had gone...
Leaning forward confidently in a darkened hotel bar, the detective adds that the case has held a long and strange fascination for him. Clues began to appear when he was a young man. First, he noticed that a high-school girl friend had an Oscar on her mantelpiece, although her father worked as a parking at tendant. Then, during his college years, he was a bell-hop at a summer resort, where a middle-aged man in poor health taught him to play chess. The man could play several games at once. blindfolded--which seemed the only extraordinary thing about...
...result of the requirements and rules is what one cadet describes as "what you'd expect when you put 4000 overachieving high-school presidents in the same place: competition and pressure." There is little privacy at the Point; vacations are limited to three weeks around Christmas and barely six weeks during the summer. When one is on post, the pressure to perform, compete and succeed is intense. "There is no substitute for victory," reads an inscription at the base of the statue of MacArthur which stands in front of the barracks...
Only one line stands out. As Russell leads a caravan of 250 used cars across the California desert, he realizes that he'll never make his deadline if he sticks to the speed limit. Turning and speaking through a megaphone to the high-school students driving his pack of cars, he prepares the kids for a history lesson. "This is how we used to drive," he yells, "at 75 miles per hour...