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...learn to be by yourself." Bob followed that advice. He enjoys life, and his hearty laugh often sounds through his modest Concord, Mass., house. But his brother observes: "He is a predominantly inward person. The whole course of his career is solitary. He is not a joiner, and he is not into the social thing." Bob himself confirms this. "I don't work with anyone except my wife, and that stems from my oneness, or aloneness." That desire for solitary enjoyment extends even to tennis; Coles plays only singles, never doubles. Besides working with his wife, Jane, who comes from...
...second half against the Kansas City Chiefs. Sent in to replace ineffective veteran Charley Johnson, Pastorini nearly handed the mammoth Chiefs their second upset in a row. Although he suffered two interceptions, he completed ten of 21 passes for 156 yds., including a 12-yd. flip to End Charlie Joiner and a 14-yd. pass to Joe Dawkins to set up a field goal that gave Houston a 16-13 lead with eight minutes to play. Although Kansas City scored a last-quarter touchdown to win 20-16, Pastorini left the field to a standing ovation from the Houston fans...
...left to seek his fortune. Penniless but self-confident, he arrived in Alaska in 1940. By 1953 he was a respected businessman (real estate and construction) and a leading proponent of Alaskan statehood. Though politics at first did not appeal to him ("I never was much of a joiner"), a California Republican named Richard Nixon did. Hickel worked for Nixon during the 1960 campaign and before the one in 1964. Taking time off from the national scene, he surprised everyone but himself in 1966 by being elected Alaska's first Republican Governor. Two years later, after helping Nixon...
Nixon has long been a joiner-"and what he joined he led," Jackson writes. "In sheer volume, the list of his presidencies is staggering: one man, a friend from college years on, estimates that he has voted for Nixon, for one office or another, either 13 or 14 times...
...Nixon, Mitchell and Agnew speak to Middle America, but they are not its leaders. Nixon, in fact, excites little of the personal enthusiasm that even Agnew can arouse. Nor does Middle America have any organization. The anti-Moratorium rallies, for example, were largely a failure. For all the great joiner's tradition in the U.S., Middle America is diffuse and tends to be private to the point of self-consciousness ?demonstrating is not its style...