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When agents searched the trailer where Whitworth lived with his second wife Brenda, 30, they found the computer disks on which the "Dear Johnnie" letters to Walker were still stored, as well as a 48-page manual of Navy contingency plans for major hostilities in the Middle East. Brenda protested that they also carried away all her computerized notes for her doctoral dissertation on nutrition. Born and reared on a farm in North Dakota, she had met Whitworth on a 1971 trip to San Diego. She had found him "dynamic and very interesting to talk to," she told...
...rate. In Liverpool, for example, 25% of the labor force is out of work. "We have football," says Psychologist Peter Marsh. "Other societies have street gangs." A 1980 study of soccer hooliganism in Britain found that four-fifths of those charged with soccer- related crimes were either unemployed or manual workers. Says Sociologist John Williams of the University of Leicester: "We must go into the community to find out why young people find status in this kind of violence...
...those three men did for Reagan or how they did it. "It's a people business," explains Baker, adding as much mystery as he dispels. If he ever writes a book about what went on in those four years, it will be more of a psychology text than a manual on technique...
...aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual laborers. They know everybody, and they say, 'I'm going to party with those guys before I go home...
...seemingly carved into the paper, is in fact done with the tip of a brush; the delicate gradations of cross-hatching, which do not merely record patches of light and shadow but carry the eye around the forms with irresistible energy, represent an extraordinary alliance of analytic thought and manual control. Not all the drawings in the show are on this inspired level (how could they be?), but even from this tiny sampling, one can see what the heights of connoisseurship can sometimes contain...