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...member she wishes to push aside, ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the antibusing campaign last year, Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start...
...anger, in fact, that Lee Valenti, a former anti-busing parent now working within the desegregation program, believes has begun to nettle other disgruntled parents into abandoning ROAR, the secret meetings, the subversive threats, and turn, however begrudgingly, toward parent input councils established under the court order--the Racial-Ethnic Parents Advisory Council (CPAC...
...These people are mad," she says, "but you just can't stay mad over one thing for three years--and there's really only the judge to rant about. You have to reach for new peaks to sustain the anger, so some of these parents--old ROAR people and the apathetic ones--have decided to move past heckling into something tougher, something more challenging. When they see how bad conditions in the schools are, how kids can be carrying home 'A's for grades and 'C's for conduct, they begin to realize that all the demonstrating, all the animosity...
...kidding his own predicament aroused only scattered applause. For a few minutes, the Senator signed autographs, chatted with Ace Driver Cale Yarborough-a folk hero in the South for his lead foot and light heart-and smilingly posed for photographs with Miss Cindy McDowell, Miss Southern 500. Suddenly a roar swept through the crowd. Jimmy Carter was emerging from a green Chrysler, grinning with delight, totally at ease in familiar surroundings. When Carter reached the stand, the Republican vice-presidential nominee edged toward the Democratic presidential nominee. Smiling, Carter edged away. Finally, Dole maneuvered himself into a position next...
...nationalist feeling by flag waving, chanting Finns for their tired hero. The only reason that this 27-minute-plus, 25-lap race held my interest for as long as it did, and I was captivated for the last 10 laps, was the chants of "Viren, Viren" and the swelling roar of the crowd rippling around the stadium just ahead of the runners...