Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brant can still whack out a crackling paragraph in the style of his old newspaper days. But in his sixth volume, as in the previous five, he smothers this talent by his pack-rat compulsion to drag in everything pertaining to Madison and his times, no matter how deadening it may be. Even so, the main weakness of his final book is Madison himself, who was far too small a man for the heroic role that Brant would have him play. At times, in fact, even Author Irving Brant seems to forget about little Jemmy, as page after page goes...
...clump of civilian surveyors, maps under their arms, tape measures in their hands. Every now and then, one of the surveyors nods, and an aide paints a huge orange X on the wall of a home. This means it is time for those inside to pack, for next day the bulldozer will be there to knock the place down...
...President Rómulo Betancourt leaned forward to embrace visiting Argentine President Arturo Frondizi in Caracas, one photographer captured the scene from an opportune angle. There, jutting out of Betancourt's pocket, was a pistol butt. The picture raised questions of why a head of state should pack his own pistol. But in Latin America, where the bullet is often more decisive than the ballot, no politician has a better right to fulltime self-protection than Venezuela's embattled chief executive...
Hamlin, hampered by an inflamed Achilles tendon, was running third at the two-mile mark, when a stitch forced him to drop out of the race. As Crimson hopes plummeted--for a victory without Hamlin was impossible--Hamlin recovered and set out after the pack. He eventually finished seventh, in a courageous effort...
Mullin, Hamlin, and sophomore Eddie Meehan form the varsity's big three, and give the Crimson a good, solid group of runners likely to place well up in the pack. Behind these are Knapp and Greg Baldwin, both reasonably reliable competitors. But after them, who knows? Don Kirkland, a 440 man on the track team, is a real battler, but his cross country experience is limited...