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...revelations about family counseling as mawkish exploitation of private tragedy for political gain. But many voters, aware of the transforming experience of a personal tragedy, are less cynical; they understand that politicians can be simultaneously strategic and sincere. "I thought, 'This white-bread family admitted to counseling?' " recalls Susan Longley of Liberty, Maine, who had been lukewarm to Gore before his speech. "And since then I've developed a magnetic pull to Gore, because he speaks the language of people who tend their hearts." Family counseling is not part of Gore's campaign pitch, but like many of his generation...
...someone of his age, he's incredible," said Salem Coach Grant Longley, 45, who needed players after four former team members were knocked out of competition by poor grades. Sweeney, studying French and piano, and majoring in physical education so he can eventually return to coaching, is a solid B student. BOSTON COLLEGE...
What to make of this slice of American pie, this pastoral adagio, this memoir-nightmare? Writer Wittliff has drawn the film's setting and tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace...
DIED. James B. Longley, 56, maverick insurance millionaire who, in 1974, was elected Governor of Maine as an independent; of cancer; in Lewiston. Longley vowed to hold down state spending and not to seek a second term. He kept both promises, halving unemployment, funneling a $40 million state surplus into tax rebates and stepping down last year...
...investigation began in August of 1975 and was headed by Theodore Souris, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice who is now a senior partner in the prestigious Detroit law firm of Bodman, Longley, Bogle and Armstrong. The financial aspects of the probe were directed by Norman A. Bolz, partner in the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Before the probe ended, 500 interviews had been conducted, and 50 Ford executives, among many others, had been questioned, Iacocca learned of the dimensions of the probe only from friends and business associates who had been grilled...