Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Jim Herberich set a new school record when he took second in the 200 behind' Princeton's sprinter Steve Morgan, winner of the meet's outstanding performer award...
...BRIGHT DAY in Kent, England retired glove salesman W. Morgan Petty heard about an interview with a prominent American General. Not to worry, said the general: A nuclear war can be confined to a very small area. Petty was greatly encouraged by those findings- certianly the Super Powers had nothing against him or any of his neighbors and would therefore pick a small area well away from his house. So Petty and his tenacious sidekick Roger declared the house and garden a nuclear free zone...
...beigns The Defense Diaries of W. Morgan Petty, which chronicles Petty's efforts to ensure the safety of 3 Cherry Drive. After all, it's one thing to say your house is bomb free and quite another to get the Super Powers to cooperate. Petty's diaries include the replies of officials to his queries about joining NATO, formalizing a state of non-aggression with the Soviet Union, and protecting his garden vegetables against nuclear fallout...
There are all sorts of ways to work against nuclear catastrophe- lobbying Congress, meditating on world peace, marching in the streets. Vigilance, of course, can be tedious, and it has not yet brought the knid of reassurance that people like W. Morgan Petty are looking for. When we find that no one will take him seriously, and that no one will promise not to drop the bomb, it's hard to be cheerful at all. This crisis of cynicism may get a chance to be more important than the immediate threats to our safety. Hope is what you have when...
...acti vist life, lobbying and demonstrating against nuclear weapons. He accepts dozens of speaking engagements a year, three-quarters of them political, and he says he is willing to visit Nicaragua if it would help ease U.S. hostility to the Sandinista regime. He and his second wife, Mary Morgan, 41, spend the winters aboard their boat Carapace in the British Virgin Islands and most of the rest of the year in Maine and Arkansas...