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...drive for personal involvement may well have sprung from the fact that Reagan's family seldom grazed any place very long. He was born in Tampico, 111., one of many Midwest towns that attracted Ronald's Irish father, John Reagan, a Willy Loman type who may not have been the world's best shoe salesman but held all records at the bar. Reagan's mother, Nelle, of Scots-English blood, was a churchly woman who taught Ronnie and his brother Neil, now 58, to read before they entered the first grade...
...February of last year, American pilots have been puzzled at the way Ho Chi Minh has used his air force. There were always plenty of MIGs on the ground, and bomber crews occasionally reported sighting small formations of the Russian-built fighters on the horizon. But the MIGs seldom ventured to attack unless the odds seemed overwhelmingly in their favor. Never have they made a concerted effort to protect any target. Never have they been seen over the Panhandle, the vital staging area for all military units infiltrating the South. And in the past year, although markedly more MIGs have...
...value of a prosthesis great enough that the patient is served best with a good stump and an artificial limb. An entire arm should not usually be restored to a patient over 40 if he has one good arm. Recovery of protective sensation in the fingers will seldom be worth the prolonged disability and the rehabilitative operations...
...Seldom, if ever, in the dozen years since the U.S. Supreme Court's school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
Little happens, except what Passer calls "life as it is, unheroic, unexceptional but nonetheless interesting." More than interesting, Lighting reflects a humanist tradition seldom seen on the screen since the early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter...