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Lohr, 43, a San Franciscan with blond hair and a soft, open manner, moved to Crested Butte from New Hampshire in 1986, when she became director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, a high-altitude field station based in the ghost town of Gothic. The federal grazing land around the lab was leased by a "range pool" that included Trampe, now 50, who left college and started ranching in 1967 after his father dropped dead in the field. Trampe's elders in the range pool couldn't fathom the lab's scientists. "To a rancher, it's strange...
Lieut. Sweeney, a stickler for good order and discipline, demanded a crisp salute from enlisted men. Whenever he approached a group of us, we would assign one person in the group to salute lefthanded. A thicket of arms would snap up in the regulation manner, accompanied by an enthusiastic chorus of "Good morning, SIR!" Sometimes, Lieut. Sweeney would pause after he passed us, look puzzled for a moment and then shake his head and move on. But the notion that we could have an impact on his mental health was wishful thinking...
...press conference was not even the worst. Jones later appeared in a vicious video called The Clinton Chronicles, put together by Clinton haters to accuse the President of all manner of implausible crimes. She was dressed in a sort of Little Bo Peep outfit, presumably meant to suggest virginal innocence. Penthouse by then had published nearly nude pictures of Jones in suggestive poses, taken years earlier by a former boyfriend and sold to the magazine without her knowledge; in fact, Jones tried to get an injunction to stop their publication. Even so, the ludicrous contrast between her appearance in Penthouse...
...never would have started out that way [establishing an escrow fund] but we found that the administration was not really interested in having a dialogue with us and answering our concerns in a constructive manner," Schmertzler said...
Barbara Slavin '72, a member of SDS who occupied University Hall, says that many people questioned the manner in which the students staged the takeover...