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...pondered his choice. "If the call comes, fine. I'll do my best. If it doesn't, so be it." When the call came, he became "very thoughtful," says Hugh Morrow. "I've got to tell Happy," Rocky said somberly as he wandered off to a pine grove where his wife was walking her dog. Exactly how she responded is not known, but probably with, at best, muted enthusiasm: Happy is a deeply private person who does not relish the role of a political wife. "As a concerned citizen, I'm thrilled," she told reporters later...
...Harvard fan is the undergrad, with his date from Pine Manor who he is taking to the game. He wears a tweed jacket over a sweater to the stadium, and brings a blanket to sit on and a thermos of milk punch or a flask to stay warm...
Morris Dees, 36, sold everything from cakes to pine cones as a student at the University of Alabama, and in four years earned $150,000. Capitalizing on his salesmanship after law school, he and a partner started a publishing company that specialized in cookbooks. Dees sold the firm for some $6 million in 1969, opened the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery the next year, and established himself as one of the region's leading civil rights attorneys. He filed suits that forced the hiring of black state troopers in Alabama, integrated the Montgomery Y.M.C.A., and generally discomfited...
McPhee is not a physicist but a journalist, one of the very best now writing, who specializes in the long, reportorial essay. He has written books about such things as oranges, tennis, ecology, an unlikely tract of New Jersey outback called the Pine Barrens and a group of men who tried to reinvent the zeppelin. Like all journalists dealing with science, McPhee is tethered by limitations in his readers' knowledge and imagination...
Screenplay by TINA and LESTER PINE...