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...father sang a lot, wrote his daughter a little tune called The Moon Is Made of Gold ("So don't feel bad because the sun went down/ The moon is made of gold"), which she includes in her show. Kicked out of high school in Olympia, Wash., Rickie Lee started drifting and bumming, drinking heavily, getting a firsthand taste of the lowlife. "I've been as far down as I can go and I made it out," she reflects. "So there's nothing to be afraid of any more." Eventually she made her way out to Venice...
Elsewhere, prohibition sentiment lives on in a variety of peculiar rules. In Washington State, an obscure law bans the word saloon in the name of any beverage or place of business. Last April the Olympia Brewing Co. made the mistake of launching a new brand called Buckhorn Saloon: it had to destroy 1,751 cases and ship another 4,000 to other states. In Utah, restaurants can only provide setups. A customer can either bring his own bottle or he can buy his liquor from a state-licensed bar at the establishment; the law says the customer must walk...
Jeff Melvoin, covering his first campaign for TIME, recalls the sight of G. Carlton Snowe helping his daughter-in-law Olympia Snowe win a seat in Congress from Maine. Reports Melvoin: "A big, broad man with an easy outdoor manner, 'Carlie' greeted his neighbors as they came to vote. As I drove away in the bleak New England afternoon, his white hair made him easy to pick out: a large figure bundled up against the cold wind, with a warm word for each passerby, going the last mile for his daughter...
...Olympia Snowe, a G.O.P. state senator in Maine, won election to Congress by taking a conservative stance on fiscal issues and hiking 450 miles through her rural district to meet the voters. She out-legged Democratic Secretary of State Markham Gartley by eight percentage points...
...ship ablaze and sinking beneath him, shouted to the apparently victorious British, "I have not yet begun to fight!" It is the gallant tradition of the Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...