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WHEN I was young, I would go on one-day excursions from my home in southeastern Wisconsin to the mysterious gateway city of the midwest, Chicago, via the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Winding through the empty stretches of wooded farmlands, the train boomed into the quiet and respectable north shore suburbs of Forest Hills, Glencoe, Northbrook, Wilmette and Evanston and as the density of houses and street corner drugstores began to thicken, my father would lean over and say, "Get your ticket ready. We'll be coming to Chicago any minute...
...been here before; on grade school field trips to the Museum of Science and Industry, to visit Northwestern in my senior year in high school, to spend a week in the downtown YMCA during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, and now a year later for the opening of the Chicago conspiracy trial and the Weatherman Days of Rage. "Nobody in that courtroom was the same person he had been thirteen months before. Nobody had the same intentions," Tony Lukas writes in his new book Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Certainly not myself, who with a voyeuristic journalistic curiosity...
...Stone and Eva Jefferson, black student body president at Northwestern University...
Tuesday Foster was named ECAC Division I sophomore of the week for his performance against Northwestern...
Personal Distance. The psychologists had expected their spokesman to be most persuasive from the middle distance, five to six feet. Any nearer approach would invade what Northwestern University Anthropologist Edward T. Hall and others have called "personal distance"-an invisible sphere that most animals, as well as man, consider off limits to strangers. The greatest separation corresponds to "public distance": presumably far enough off to discourage personal communication. To Albert and Dabbs, five to six feet seemed just about right, being neither too close for comfort nor so far off as to present only a modest claim on the subject...