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With war's end, Rickover's prospects seemed to have dimmed, and his personal life was none too happy. The Rickover family in Chicago had never been outwardly affectionate. Violent conflicts and bitter resentments were an integral part of its life, but it was close-knit and loyal. Captain Rickover had drifted out of this clannish environment. He did not follow Jewish customs; he did not go to a synagogue; he had married a gentile. At last he wrote a letter to his parents, telling them that he no longer considered himself exclusively Jewish in religion. A later...
...there and go to the races. The first things I saw were the most gorgeous satin jockey coats in the most wonderful colors you've ever seen. I adopted them. Then I went to the pawn shops. I got some of the most marvelous heavy, cable-knit sweaters there, and even some underwear. When I got back to New York, I remembered the beautiful blue, blue Irish sky and the fresh green grass, so I combined the colors in my fashions...
Further, the modern tendency toward elaborate organization, which works for everyone, does not discriminate against criminals. In earlier times, society usually had the criminal at a heavy disadvantage; he was likely to be a lone wolf or a member of a loosely knit mob with small resources, untrusting and untrustworthy, incapable of stable alliances with other criminals. The 20th century has seen an extraordinary shift to conspiratorial crime, which reached its first great flowering during Prohibition, e.g., the Capone gang. Some American gangs have maintained their continuity for a generation, enforcing discipline on their members and finding allies in respectable...
...departure of Governor Earl Warren from the California political landscape two months ago to become U.S. Chief Justice opened up three big California questions: 1) What kind of governor would Warren's successor, Goodwin Jess Knight, make? 2) Would the tightly knit band of Warrenites who had run the state for ten years continue to run California Republicanism? 3) Would the G.O.P. be able to stay in power in the absence of Warren's bipartisan appeal...
...always got new ones. He was cheerful and well liked, even by men who fired him. He became a good salesman and as the years passed, drank less and less. The Thomas D. Palmers lived for their children, and in the end their fortress was their big, respectable, close-knit family...