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Feeney was not alone in attribut- ing the unforseen elections of two relative newcomers to the influence of PUCC. Indeed, Coffey said he saw something of an anti-council establishment pattern in the voting...
...long as there have been teenage sex and teenage pregnancy, there has also been a familiar pattern for young people dealing with this unwelcome event: first denial, then a creeping fear and perhaps a few fretful, secretive exchanges before the news finally comes out. In the case of "Mary Smith,'' a 15-year-old freshman at Blair High School, and her 16-year-old boyfriend Heath Mayfield, a junior varsity running back with a spanking-new Ford Mustang, the pregnancy was well into the fifth month before they finally confirmed it with a home-test...
Since then, his working process has varied little. Each book takes about 18 months. "I'm not an everyday writer, and I never have been. I have continued a pattern of intermittent, very intense effort, and that's the way I still do it." Routine is key. He eats the same lunch every day: while writing Rising Sun, it was buckwheat noodles; during Congo, mashed potatoes, gravy and an open-face turkey sandwich; for The Great Train Robbery, heavily peppered tuna sandwiches...
Born in North Carolina, Coltrane began his career as a horn man in Philadelphia R.-and-B. bands in the 1940s. During much of the '50s, his life followed an all-too-familiar pattern-the broke and brooding jazz musician who turns to booze and drugs. Yet in 1957 he kicked drugs cold turkey at his mother's house, subsisting only on water and a new-found religious zeal...
...appointment offers an opportunity to break that pattern...