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...patrols pleased downtown businessmen, and he delighted the rank and file by taking to the streets himself when things got slow at headquarters. He has made dozens of % collars in his car, on foot and on horseback, and gained some national publicity when he nabbed a bicycle thief while roller-skating. As for the department, "our morale is the highest it's ever been," reports the head of the police association, "and it's because of the chief." But the accomplishment that pleases Greenberg most is his full-scale assault on crime in black neighborhoods. "That's my constituency...
...First Lady rides the roller coaster of her husband's politics, takes the buffeting of uncontrollable world events and suffers the brickbats of detractors in frustrated silence. She is damned if she tries to influence policy and damned if she doesn't. In some ways, her job is tougher than the President...
...recent Saturday evening, the lines disappeared, the freak-show hosts fell silent, and the roller-coasters seemed almost to stop...
...self-interested strivings of wild-eyed nonconformists, each fur-laden Daniel Boone pursuing his independent errand into the wilderness. The term is fairly precise. More aggressive than mere individuality, less narcissistic than the "me" decade, it does not refer to people who live in health clubs or on roller skates, or to the hotly cultivated yuppies who have come to mean so much to themselves. The "rugged" saves "rugged individualism" from shabbiness by implying not merely solitary but courageous action. Look. Here comes America. Davy Crockett, Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford. Those fellows built a nation with their hands...
...took place. (Here is a yellowed card, signed on Feb. 12, 1911, confirming membership in the "Abstinence Department of the Anti-Saloon League." It pledges abstinence, saying further that intoxicating beverages are "productive of pauperism, degradation and crime.") Faded photographs are particularly difficult to reject (this one has them roller-skating in Central Park during the Depression), as are imperfect potteries, one's own juvenilia. Each visit becomes a sort of "This Was Our Life" program, and not uncomfortably so. Afterward, the wires sing between siblings...