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...cover the confrontation between the FBI and the Freemen only to find that news crews and law officers had taken all the hotel rooms. "So I flopped my sleeping bag in an old school bus in the barn on my cousin John Cooley's ranch," says Dawson, a native Montanan who has reported from the West for TIME for 15 years. He notes that the state has a "colorful and maybe not always noble history of vigilante movements." And although Dawson was surprised by "the accumulated anger and tunnel vision" of some of the Freemen's followers, the situation...
...THEY'RE POSERS," COMPLAINS Larry Lahren, 49, a native Montanan hunting- and-fishing outfitter in the town of Livingston in Paradise Valley. "They never had an adventure in their lives until they bought all this stuff. Now, with $2,000 or $3,000 worth of fly gear, they suddenly think they're experts...
...lazy' means only 'lazy,' as in sleeping off the saki. Now I know that 'lazy' can also mean 'laid-back.' " Kaz, for his part, found the relationship between boss and worker hard to fathom. Used to bowing when meeting a superior, he now greets John Morse, the third-generation Montanan hired to run the Lazy 8, by shouting "Hi, John!" "Yeah, Kaz, you guys gotta get rid of that junk," says Chaffin, offering a lesson in American egalitarianism between bites of a roast beef sandwich. "People who run things aren't any better than us. They just make more money...
...years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD, 69, has bossed the Senate since Lyndon Johnson shifted to the Executive Branch in 1961 but his style is far less forceful and flamboyant. A quiet studious Montanan, he has a deep and abiding respect for the individual rights and prerogatives of each Senator that is both his main strength and his mam weakness. Says one colleague: "Mansfield tries to lead within the confines and strictures of this goddam institution, but we need stronger leadership." His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, has been similarly criticized. A pipe-puffing moderate, Scott can grandstand...