Word: neighbors
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...delegate to three G.O.P. conventions and served as president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women. When she ran for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women in 1967, she lost in a bitter campaign against a more moderate candidate. Schlafly's own next-door neighbor in Alton, a housewife and active Republican, accused her at the time of being "an exponent of an extreme right-wing philosophy-a propagandist who deals in emotion and personalities where it is not necessary to establish facts or prove charges...
Chen Jo-hsi reserves a special scorn for devotees of those I've-been-to-China travelogues that portray a China far more unreal than her fiction. Nixon's Press Corps shows the enforcers of the Communist Party requiring entire neighbor hoods to tear down their makeshift laundry drying racks suspended from people's dwellings so that they will not be eye sores for the foreign visitors. In fact, the visitors never turn up. The lesson here is that often the most difficult struggles come, not in grand political arenas, but in the small and petty matters...
...Kane, finding a place near Los Angeles last autumn was also traumatic. His choice: a four-bedroom ranch in the west San Fernando Valley, an hour's drive from the bureau. His house, for which he paid $89,000, stands beside an identical one for which his neighbor paid $29,950 in 1964. Without Proposition 13, Kane's taxes, now $1,441, would probably have gone to $3,565 after next year's assessments. Said Kane: "Even out here in the magic kingdom of Disneyland, a man's home is his castle. But that...
...vehemence of the Chinese charges has clearly disconcerted Hanoi, which can scarcely afford more trouble with Peking. Already suffering from severe economic problems, Viet Nam is embroiled in a costly war with its Peking-supported neighbor, Cambodia. Accordingly, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry has asked Peking to negotiate "in a spirit of friendship" the problems involving the overseas Chinese. Meanwhile, Hanoi's official news agency has dismissed the Chinese atrocity stories as "sheer fabrications...
...work of more than 120 poets. The only major writer to receive substantial space is Byron. Though it is preferable to read Don Juan whole, Amis' excerpts do underscore this long poem's consistent, sparkling hilarity. Byron on government bureaucrats is, unfortunately, still timely. Ask a neighbor, he advised...