Word: lifeguarding
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...Stupefying Bureaucracy." By hoarding his summer earnings as a lifeguard, Reagan managed to enter tiny (enrollment then: 250) Eureka College in Illinois-another small, activist-breeding environment. He made the football team (as a 175-lb. guard), led a student strike against the board of trustees when they tried to change the curriculum, graduated in 1932 with a degree in economics and sociology, and-"because I was a child of the Depression, a Democrat by upbringing and very emotionally involved"-he cast his first vote for Franklin Roosevelt. "Remember his platform?" asks Reagan. "It was all for states' rights...
...boys school of politics, O'Connor, 56, is a smiling, pleasant fellow with wiry good looks and a wholesome family life (one wife, three sons). Born in New York City of immigrant parents, he worked his way through college (Niagara University) and law school as a lifeguard and merchant seaman. As a lawyer, he got some national attention for his conscientious - and ultimately successful - defense of Christopher Balestrero, a musician who was the victim of a mistaken-identity arrest...
Directing his fire west, Whitman found shop-lined Guadalupe Street, the main thoroughfare off campus?known locally as "The Drag"?astir with shoppers and strollers. Paul Sonntag, 18, lifeguard at an Austin pool and grandson of Paul Bolton, longtime friend of Lyndon Johnson and news editor of the Johnsons' Austin television station, was accompanying Claudia Rutt, 18, for a polio shot she needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father...
...professor at Northwestern, finds its anti-hero in suburbia-Newman passed his adolescence in a wealthy Chicago suburb. Little Ed, the son of Big Ed, grows up in the world of picture windows and miniature tractors to become successively a tackle on the Country Day School football team, a lifeguard at the country club, an M.D. with a prosperous practice, the father of Little Little Ed-and a man who sometimes wonders sadly if he will really find salvation through his hobby: hand-hewing baseball bats. Author Newman's sentences are almost too elegant; his suburban lanes go "wandering...
Unlike the requirement in criminal cases, proof that defendant was the "but for" cause need not be beyond a reasonable doubt; a "preponderance" of credible evidence will do, and common-sense assumptions are permissible. Though a child might have drowned anyway, for instance, the absence of a lifeguard is presumed to be significant in the alleged negligence of a swimming-pool owner...