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...troublesome teen-ager or even a loner. Indeed, in the seventh and ninth grades he was elected president of his home room, and as an eighth-grader managed the basketball team. John Hinckley was no aloof oddball then. Says his junior-high friend Kirk Dooley: "No one rooted louder than Hinckley for the Highland Park Red Raiders...
...former President proposed a change of his own last week. While visiting Princeton University, he told students that the President should serve a single six-year term in order to pursue his policies without being accused of playing politics. Ever a loner, Carter also called the Democratic Party an "albatross around my neck" during his re-election campaign...
Wanted: a man or woman about 40 years old, single or childless, with at least a high school education. A reliable employee who has frequent contact with children, perhaps even on the job, and lives in a lower middle-class racially mixed neighborhood. A loner, with few close friends and virtually no sense of humor. Extremely neat. Brought up in a broken home by an abusive mother. May believe it is an act of mercy to kill poor black children and thus remove them from a bad environment. May have expressed condolences to some of the victims' families...
...ranch he can be free?not "on" to audiences. The only odd thing in the picture is that such a loner would choose to give his life to lines of work that demand continuous performance...
...BUNDY also obsessed the media. He made good copy. No brooding loner like many of our great criminals, he was flamboyantly glib before the microphones and looked dashing on camera. He knew how to attract attention and how to be a celebrity. There was always a story; two jailbreaks, his articulate mocking of the proceedings against him, the dramatic, tempestuous trials, his being his own lawyer, his continual gaming in the spotlights, his marriage while examining his girlfriend on the witness stand. He coveted the segments on the news and the front page stories, always encouraging America's cultish fixation...