Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent an entire summer doing medical research at some institute where they paid you per dozen rats you managed to infect with assorted communicable horrors, and said he actually enjoyed the stay at "cancer camp." (That story had something to do with it, of course. Pre-med fever ran as high in Prescott as in any other freshman dorm, and even the most casually ambitious protosurgeon could develop a hatred for someone who seemed more at home in a laboratory than the Bunsen burners.) More than that, though, it was Carlo's attitude: he couldn't stand the unsophisticated people...
...Mapucho Indians describe the way their lives havemimproved under the Allende regime. One man begins to sob, and a woman standing near him explains, "It's a very emotional thing for us." A coal miner says, "Before it was terrible because the 'momios' [the rich, the big landowners] ran things and threw us out when they were angry. Now we are in good shape. We work for ourselves and so for Chile." Their words are not forced--they come from the heart...
...says Kissinger never opposed the raids. He says he even called Kissinger the night before the Frost taping session to recheck his memory. According to Nixon, "Henry felt that he ought to try to win over those he said 'hate your guts.' They were his friends; he ran in their set. But they got the wrong impression. He supported the bombing." In fact, adds Nixon, Kissinger cabled from Hanoi at one point during his subsequent peace shuttle that the Christmas raids had killed only 400 to 500 civilians, which Nixon deemed "a remarkable achievement...
...represented a kind of nostalgia. In an era of Teapot Dome and bathtub gin, he seemed to Americans a cleaner, sharper version of themselves, as bright as a new silver dollar, still inventive and vigorous. If, as Historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, the U.S. ran out of frontier in 1890, Lindbergh opened a new frontier in the air - the U.S. arcing back in triumph to its European origins...
Lindbergh was amazed at becoming a hero. His life changed forever. After the Paris flight, people stole his laundry for souvenirs. When he wrote a check, it would be kept for his signature. Once, after a hearty lunch with some pilot friends, a group of women ran squealing to fight over the wet corncobs he had left on his plate. In 1932 came the kidnaping of the Lindberghs' child. He never forgave the mob of reporters who, he thought, had frightened the kidnaper into killing his son, or the pair of photographers who broke into the Trenton, N.J., morgue...