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...table that she walked out in 1948 with their two children, Maureen, now 34, and Michael, 30. Four years later he married a former starlet who shared his political convictions: Nancy Davis, daughter of a wealthy Chicago neurosurgeon. They have two children, Patricia, 22, an aspiring singer, and Ronald Prescott, 17, a student at a private boys' school...
...Prescott Bush, a former Republican Senator from Connecticut, George Bush received an impeccable Eastern education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then at Yale, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and a degree in economics in 1948. Wishing to escape the shadow of his father's success, he migrated to Texas, co-founded the Zapata Petroleum Corp. in 1953 and accumulated a fortune. In 1964, Bush got his baptism in the Texas political wars when he was defeated in a race for the Senate by liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. Lowering his sights, Bush was elected to two terms...
Horgan's elegant, periodic prose, reminiscent of the 19th century histories of Prescott and Parkman, is at its most eloquent during these confrontations of culture. Horgan views the rebel Martinez as a tragic figure, lost "in the ashes of the old consuming conflict, in the pathos of learned agonies spent in a footless cause." The author also brings rich life to less dramatic episodes: his long, detailed accounts of the journeys over trackless desert and plateau develop a hypnotic rhythm of their own. Even minor ecclesiastical skirmishes are brilliantly employed-Lamy's exasperation with Vatican bureaucracy simultaneously reveals...
Opponents also argue that there is little justification for banning handguns on grounds that gun availability leads to suicide. MIT Professor Prescott Crout, also of GOAL, points out that the number of guns in circulation has increased dramatically since 1950 while the suicide rate has remained almost constant. He cites a study by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence entitled Firearms and Violence in American Life, which concluded, "There is little reason to expect that reducing the availability of guns will cause a signifcant reduction in suicides. A person who really wants to die will find...
Peter H. Olden Prescott, Ariz...