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...whose record of 36 years on the high court may stand forever. And there is indeed much to admire. As a child in Yakima, Wash., Douglas had to conquer polio and poverty. He gave up everything dear to him to jump into the Establishment's big East Coast pond, and by age 39 was leading the successful campaign to reform the New York Stock Exchange. He spent half of his life on the Supreme Court championing un popular causes and had so much surplus energy that he became a prolific author. He was almost President: Franklin Roosevelt wanted Douglas...
...Georgia, he appeared as the mystery guest on the television show What's My Line? and stumped the panel. Though he lives in the spotlight, Carter remains an intensely private person. His hobbies are those of a loner-fishing by himself for hours on end in a Georgia pond or a Pennsylvania trout stream, or jogging through the woods of Camp David, to which he and Rosalynn now retreat almost weekly. Except for Charles Kirbo, the Atlanta attorney who is his confidant, and his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, he has few close friends and virtually none in Washington...
Instead of wandering a mile or two to a local pond like Thoreau, Arthur journeyed with her husband to Stuart Lake, British Columbia, 54 degrees, 40 minutes, where they buy a small island and build a house. Their motive is clearly escape: "When we moved to the island, we dreamed of making a permanent home in the wilderness, apart from the forces we thought were destroying and polluting the world...
...wary of who he accepts into his cab--a blue '78 Fury. Arthur, who has been leasing the street-beat Fury from his uncle for about eight months, has been held up once in his three years of full-time night driving. Last spring, he stopped at Fresh Pond to make a phone call. He was standing beside his cab when three men pulled knives on him and took all his cash...
...Fresh Pond is a favorite place for my family--one of my nicest memories was the morning I discovered a kingfisher lived there... The new taxes that just came out are not among the nicest memories. Neither is the MBTA." --Hubert Jessup...