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...specially reserved campgrounds and bike inns. The bike inns are usually borrowed churches, college dormitories and school gymnasiums, where inexpensive meals, a bed and shower can be had, but a few are splendidly exotic. Two favorites: a gristmill in Kentucky and a marble-adorned Victorian-era hotel in Sinclair...
California casualties swoop down dead with more speed and color and frequency than any other state's: Upton Sinclair, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Goodwin Knight, William Knowland, Pierre Salinger, and of course, Richard Nixon in 1962. It was Jerry Brown's father, cheerful stumbly Pat Brown who beat Nixon for the governorship that year, only to lose to Ronald Reagan the next time around. There is no security in California politics-Pat Brown says that he "rubbed his hands in glee" at the thought of running against the "fading, aging actor." Perhaps that is why the young Brown, with...
Historically, there were ample reasons why Americans swarmed into the cities; country and small-town life could be difficult and dull and remote. In Main Street, Sinclair Lewis called the small-town existence "dullness made God . . . the contentment of the quiet dead." But rural and small-town life has been modernized and is no longer stultifyingly isolated. The interstate highway system, 88% complete, brings most of the remoter regions to within an hour or two's drive of a city. Jet planes and a growing number of airports provide similar ease of access to he outside world. Television pipes...
...Peter W. Sinclair...
...more properly, these people are remaking the small-town life-style that American writers since Sinclair Lewis have been excoriating. Prudish and bigoted, they have everything their smug little hearts could desire - except the power to reproduce themselves (probably because they lack fresh air and real sunshine). They must send sirens up to lure studs down, and that is where the boy - despite his dog's warning - goes wrong, precipitating one of the year's better chase adventures...