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That seemed to go for her new school too. By enrolling in 108-year-old Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, nine blocks from the White House, Amy became the first President's child to attend a Washington public school since Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin in 1906. While that was another demonstration of the new First Family's egalitarian faith, it also thrust Amy even further into the public spotlight that seems increasingly to bother her. Arriving at the school door, Amy tugged unsmilingly at her mother's arm as she stopped to wave to the crowd...
...rather heavily, "forlorn-a baffled and beleaguered public figure." No more Amy press conferences, Jimmy ruled. Says Mary Hoyt: "For a while, she needs to get her feet on the ground and be treated like any other nine-year-old." As long as she does not follow Quentin Roosevelt's example, her privacy should be relatively safe. Arriving late one day for class, the story goes, Quentin disrupted his fellow students' work by singing and wildly waving his arms. For his misbehavior, school officials sent him home -where the White House butler opened the door...
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After a trial of 16 months costing more than $2 million -both California records-a jury in San Rafael finally made up its mind about the San Quentin Six, a group of convicts accused of having taken part in a spectacular, bloody and unsuccessful escape attempt on Aug. 21, 1971. Three were convicted, three acquitted. The trial followed a series of violent events centering on George Jackson, a black prisoner and social revolutionary whose bitter writings about life behind bars became a popular book (Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson...
...come up during a trial -the suppression of evidence, improper evidence before the jury, constitutional rights. The issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy to reflect on the wider ramifications of his ordeal. Anxiously anticipating the trial's end, he says wearily, "I feel like I've got a parole date...