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...father moved the family to Artesia, Calif., where he bought a ten-acre truck farm. Pat's mother died when she was 13, leaving her to do all the housework and some of the fieldwork. Eleanor Stegeberg was born in 1921 on a South Dakota farm at the outset of the great farm depression. Her mother died when she and her twin sister Ila were eleven. There was never much money but there was always plenty of talk. "I grew up thinking that the only way one spent a Sunday afternoon was discussing politics," recalls Eleanor. Her father...
...surprise gold medalist in the 3,000-meter steeplechase) with no serious competition in the 1,500, the Olympiad's most prestigious race. As startling as Ryun's accident was the victory of Dave Wottle, 22, of Bowling Green University in the 800-meter run. At the outset Wottle had not been given much of a chance in the 800-even by U.S. Track Coach Bill Bowerman. In the eyes of the dour University of Oregon coach, Wottle would be unable to overcome two afflictions, both suffered in July: tendinitis of the knees and marriage...
Unger's concern is not with the contents of the Papers--one of the more intriguing facts that he has uncovered is that the lawyers arguing the case and the judges trying it were not only ignorant of the paper's contents at the outset of the litigation, but remained that way throughout the proceedings. But since the content of the papers is not the subject of the book, the decision to publish and the consequences must be central. The account the Unger has written of that decision read well enough in a magazine, but when expanded to along book...
...even the protesters were swept under by the supra-efficient planning which fused the Republican's gathering in Miami Beach. Their goal of forcing the President to deliver his acceptance speech before a half filled auditorium seemed an improbable one at the outset; its chances for success diminished steadily as internal dissension over tactics of violence and non-violence split the demonstrators...
There is a sense of uneasiness from the outset. Bobby (Ned Beatty), fattest and least fit of the group, takes one look around the deep woods and says: "I think this is where everything finishes up." The country folk are suspicious, violent, many inbred to the point of idiocy. They watch the city men like weasels guarding a burrow...