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...Diego, Dorothea Morefield, who may almost have been serious in jesting that "I'm getting tired of the color yellow," also had a quip when her husband Richard called from West Germany. She pleaded, "The next time you're going to be late for dinner, please call." When John E. Graves reached his son Martin in Reston, Va., he confided, "Believe it or not, I didn't think I could, but I've discovered that I can find my way to the toilet alone...
...emotional sweatbox of unrelieved uncertainty over their ultimate fate. Would they be freed? Tried as spies? Executed? For their families at home, the months of recurring rumors of imminent release, fed by Iranian propagandists, had been painful too. Even on the verge of the actual release, noted Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, whose husband is consul general of the captive U.S. embassy: "Everybody's walking around with their fingers crossed." Said Susan Cooke of Memphis about her hostage son Donald: "I just want to grab him and hang on for dear life...
...believing that if they talk about their feelings, their countrymen will remember the missing Americans. Says Allyssa Keough of South Burlington, Vt., 19, whose father William Keough Jr. is a captive: "I don't want people to forget. This is the only way I know to help." Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, wife of Hostage Richard Morefield, has found reporters to be a source of emotional support. Says she: "Some of them I trust completely. A group of CBS correspondents stayed here one night answering the phone, so that my boys and I could get some sleep...
Telephone calls from the press have not been the worst intrusions. Several families have received inquiries from manufacturers offering product endorsement deals or from literary agents urging them to sign book or story contracts. "I've had about half a dozen offers," says Morefield. She adds: "One even wanted me to contact my husband now, in Iran, for his story, if you can believe that...
...yard relay to a four-mile relay, will be the most exciting, but probably the most interesting event from a tract point of view is the college hammer throw, entered by Yale's Stew Thompson and Tom Henderson; Don Selfert of Brown; Nat Baker of Boston University; and John Morefield of M.I.T. Thompson is the favorite, but it should be close...