Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather dance than eat," Erv grins), but mostly Erv's year will be a day-to-day battle just to stay even. Then it will be spring again, and time for planting. It is an exhausting and relentless cycle, but that is the way men like Erv Walters prefer it. "We aren't making much money," he muses. "We just farm because that's what we want...
McCloskey still hopes that the President will change his mind on Viet Nam, that he will get out more quickly, that he will "come up with a startling new initiative." He would also prefer that someone else make the run. But as to his determination there is little doubt. "You're damned right you'll see me up in New Hampshire next year," he says. "If Nixon doesn't change and no one else better does it, I'll be there. I like those mountains...
...lately to the barricades, a dotty old lady off on a senile lark. Her present politics and life-style are merely extensions of a lifelong devotion to progressive causes, and she conducts her activist's life with grace and dignity. The commune-or "co-op," as the residents prefer to call it-is quiet and orderly; each member has his or her own room and is free to come and go at will. Says Michael Widmer, 32, a Boston journalist and founder of the commune: "At first we were kind of surprised she even had the gumption to come...
Asked to comment on Sunday's "dump Nixon" rally in Providence at which he spoke, Bayh said, "I would prefer to have such a public outpouring that Nixon will end the war before election. But I'm not trying to hide the fact that I want another person in the White House...
...become an obligation not to have them, Ramsey asserts; it is shocking to him that parents will refuse genetic counseling and take the "grave risk of having defective children rather than remain childless." Dead set as he is against abortion in all but the most serious cases, Ramsey would prefer to see one parent undergo voluntary sterilization. "Genetic imprudence," he says, "is gravely immoral...