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...patchwork, We Are Your Sons is held together by the authors' faith in their parents' complete innocence. Yet between the jury's guilty verdict and the chance of a total frame-up is a possibility that the true believers-on both sides-would probably not entertain: that the Rosenbergs were guilty of low-level spying and the Government trumped up additional evidence and coached witnesses to turn a weak case into a sensational show trial. The truth may be resting uneasily in those unopened Washington files. · R.Z. Sheppard
...south side of Flint, Mich., is a patchwork of auto factories, union halls, corner taverns and conventional churches. Yet in this prosaic setting has arisen in recent years a belief as startling as anything cult-filled California has to offer. The unlikely focus of the new faith is Bernard Gill, for 13 years a respected clergyman in the Church of the Nazarene. Fed up with "promotion, programs, plans," he searched for a fiercer, purer form of Fundamentalism. Seven years ago, at 43, he quit the Nazarenes and with a handful of parishioners established the independent Colonial Village Church...
...think that it can be influenced in a substantial way to be less troublesome and to unleash the enormous resources of this country. What has happened is that there has been a tendency to deal with effects and not causes, so we have had a lot of patchwork, ad hoc solutions that do not deal with the overriding issues of growth and wage-price stability...
There was a bit of the pathetic patchwork monster about Wollstonecraft herself. Born into a graspy family of weaver-merchants who for several generations had been up and down the economic ladder, she had to pick up her education and her righteous indignation wherever she could find them. Appalled by the strictures of marriage, she attempted to support herself as a governess, then as the head of her own small school. But her temperament, says Biographer Tomalin, "was geared to drama, violent emotion and struggle" without nuance, irony or humor. She was a person who had to dominate people...
...Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when her current steady, Gardner Britt, 18, a freshman at University of Virginia Polytechnic Institute...