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Then the crowd fell quiet. Out of the dressing room stepped Stan Hansen, the blond bruiser who smashes his opponents with silver dollars he keeps in his phony arm brace. As the hisses died away a roar of applause exploded, and Bruno Sammartino--jumped into the ring...
...small towns and crossroads hamlets of the South. The room is a cacophony of the ping-pong-dingdingding of the pinball machine, the pop-fizz of another round of Pabst, the refrain of Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer on the juke box, the insolent roar of a souped-up engine outside and, above it all, the sound of easy laughter. The good ole boys have gathered for their fraternal ritual-the aimless diversion that they have elevated into a lifestyle...
...member she wishes to push aside, ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the anti-busing 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...
...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 Councils and the higher level Citywide 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...