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...many accomplishments, Hickel seems proudest of his successful efforts to give Indians top positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He fought for the return of the Blue Lake area sacred to the Taos Pueblo tribe of New Mexico. When the Indians were finally summoned to Washington to receive title to the land, one grateful elder asked: "Where's the Secretary?" Wally Hickel by then had been, in his word, "terminated...
...game on Sunday. There's a great closeness on a football team-a rapport between the men and the coach. It's a binding together, a knitting together. For me, it's like fathers and sons. That's what I missed." Football's proudest father died of cancer last week at the age of 57, and the rugged sons who loved, hated, feared and-most of all-obeyed him will never forget how he took them to heights that they never knew they could reach...
Though those who fly the flag in a traditional spirit sometimes speak in voices that are capable of chauvinism and boosterism, they very often feel an intensely deep patriotism. To begin with, observes Political Scientist Sidney Hyman, "many Americans are first, second-or third-generation. The proudest moment in the lives of their parents or grandparents was the citizenship ceremony when they received the flag. My own immigrant father took every chance to fly the flag as an affirmation of citizenship. You don't have to do this in England or France, where nationhood is deduced from history. Here...
...lives in a terraced penthouse off the Via Veneto. His proudest possessions are an awesome round bed with black satin sheets and an awesome American blonde named Jill Purcell, who refers to herself as "Lionel's Girl Friday-and Girl Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday." She doesn't even mind that Lionel occasionally entertains local talent, she says, "as long as they make their own beds and help out in the kitchen...
Cooler heads on two investigating commissions later found Judge Crockett's rulings within the law. Many citizens admitted that he had kept an explosive situation from erupting into a repeat of the 1967 riot. But Crockett was proudest of the fact that his actions had given many embittered blacks a renewed trust in courts instead of more reason to revile them. Here was a judge who pointedly asked: "Can anyone imagine the police invading an all-white church, rounding up everybody in sight and busing them to a wholesale lockup in a police garage...