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...following day Mairead Corrigan, a 32-year-old secretary and aunt of the three slain Maguire children, was looking out of her parents' front-porch window in Andersontown when she saw 200 protesting women march by. Corrigan joined Williams' ranks, and together they called for a women's peace rally the next Saturday at the spot where the children had been killed. Some 10,000 women, some wheeling prams, streamed into the rally from Protestant and Catholic districts long regarded as irreconcilably hostile. Another rally was called for the following Saturday, and this time the women arrived...
CONSPIRACY runs rampant. There is grumbling in the kitchen, muttering on the back porch, gibbering in the parlor. Back-stage phone-calls jerk marionettes out of their dangling sleep and send them prancing into places of power. Zombies lurch forward. Who is Nancy Reagan anyway? And what dark beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born...
...Effect. Northerners were startled when Carter referred in his acceptance speech at New York's Madison Square Garden to "Eye-talians." Some Eye-talians might have been ruffled, but a number of Georgians and other Southerners did not even blink. Why should they, in a region where a porch is a "pye-azzuh" and the capital of Austria-as well as a Georgia town by the same name-is "Vy-anna"? Vienna, Ga., incidentally, is the home town of Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell (see THE PRESS). Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan-or, as it is pronounced down...
...investigators also learned that the FBI's exhibit section, which is supposed to assemble models of buildings for use as evidence in trials, refurbished houses for Hoover and other bureau officials free of charge. In the 1960s, for example, the section's carpenters added a porch worth several thousand dollars to Hoover's home...
After a day's worth of Sliding Rock, it was home to cornbread and vegetables from the backyard and a hammock on the porch in Black Mountain. The white-hotness of the day gave in to smoky candles, easy. After a time, there wasn't time...