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...author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins and small-town real estate. Acting on his own forecasts of "major social and political disruptions in the country's urban areas" and "the most difficult times since the Civil War," Ruff recently moved his wife and eight of his twelve children to a new brick house in Mapleton, Utah, equipped with...
Jimmy Carter's returns to Plains once seemed a celebration of his small-town roots, but they have come to resemble a political ritual, something the President may be doing because he feels it is expected of him. So it was on the Fourth of July weekend as Carter diligently strolled down Main Street, diligently went fishing, diligently attended church three times on Sunday. His neighbors, never over-awed by the local celebrity, seem less impressed than ever. "He could be doing something more useful in Washington," grumbled one storekeeper. "He don't even help business in Plains...
...Vries' new hero needs more than fruit. Ted Peachum is a budding aesthete and furniture mover in Pocock, Ill. He is also a parody of that familiar species, the small-town boy with big ideas and an ambition to rise above his station. Who can blame him? His father rereads comic books and hibernates like a bear, his aunt is known chiefly for canceling subscriptions and returning unused portions, and his grandfather contracted a venereal disease at a health...
...determine; the Justices discussed it only in terms of a right to attend criminal trials. But spokesmen for the press jubilantly interpreted it to reach far beyond trials. James Goodale, a lawyer active in First Amendment cases, predicts that reporters will be helped in getting a look at "prisons, small-town meetings, the police blotter" and other places, proceedings and records that have often been closed to the press...
...Lenin, Peter the Great) and "eventful" men (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) who are overtaken by circumstance. Yet his call for a corrective to the country's present antiheroic mood is simply an "intelligent political participation on the part of citizens"-a phrase indistinguishable from November editorials in small-town newspapers. His attack on Lillian Hellman, whom he calls "The Scoundrel in the Looking Glass," exhumes old records to catch the autobiographer in a variety of duplicities and concealments. Hook concludes that "the manner in which [she] refers to ... anti-Communist liberals shows that what she cannot forgive them...