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...always been bankers, businessmen, public officials. It's a natural thing." The Shriver pride is an inherited trait. "We're nicer than the Kennedys," his mother once said. "We've been here since the 1600s. We're rooted in the land in Maryland...
...exposed the eerie inner world of the full-time loser determined to become "number one" by carrying out fantasies of violence. Though it seemed the handiwork of a madman, the jury took only an hour and 35 minutes to find Bremer sane-on narrow legal grounds-and guilty. In Maryland, to be judged insane a person must be unable to control his criminal behavior or unable to appreciate the criminality of his act. Bremer, as the diary makes clear, was all too well aware of what he was up to. When he was sentenced to 63 years in prison...
SARGENT SHRIVER, 56, first head of the Peace Corps, later chief of the Office of Economic Opportunity and U.S. ambassador in Paris, brother-in-law of Ted Kennedy. He has never run in an election, though he once considered trying for Governor of Maryland...
Acrimony. At his summer house in Maryland, McGovern tended his swimming pool and delegate arithmetic. At one point he paid a second courtesy call on George Wallace, presumably to feel out the Alabaman's intentions. Occasionally McGovern spoke apocalyptically of the consequences if his nomination were "literally stolen in a naked power play." He did not discount running as a third-party candidate. Said McGovern: "I don't think people have fully assessed how the party could destroy itself if the reform process is denied after all that has happened in American politics these past few years...
...Francis Scott Key could not possibly have seen the American flag waving over Fort McHenry on that day in 1814 when he wrote The Star-Spangled Banner. According to Librarian P. William Filby of the Maryland Historical Society, it was raining and it would have taken a gale to move the heavy banner. "What Key probably saw was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole." Concludes Filby: "Key didn't come running ashore crying 'Chaps, I've just produced the national anthem.' " He fitted his new poem to the tune of an English drinking song because...