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Though VanderLaan and VanderVeen are not exactly Tweedledum and Tweedledee, their personalities and politics were not big issues. Both are sober, churchgoing, solid citizens- well tailored for an industrious, no-nonsense community in America's heartland. Republican VanderLaan, 43, had won six elections to the state senate, where he is majority leader. Democrat VanderVeen, 52, a lawyer, noted that he "comes from a long line of Democrats who have lost." He had been elected to the suburban East Grand Rapids school board in 1969, but he lost by a landslide the only big race he ever entered - to Congressman...
...Fairntosh wasn't white and didn't have columns. It was a beautiful shade of yellow, and beside it was a bed of trained yellow roses, and above it were those tremendous oaks. It was actually built too early to have columns, and its porch stood out instead with sober Federalist dignity...
...Under, a huge mob had collected of those who had taken the Green instead of Orange Line from North Station. The electrified crowd occupied the time with chants of "We're number One," while several zealots took the campaign right down to the tracks. One of the less-than-sober fans climbed out after his fall by calmly stepping on the third rail, to the shock and dismay of gasping onlookers. He was not hurt...
...that sense Garrison is the descendent of a long line of Southern political feeling. Despite his sober black suits, his erudition and his conspiracy mania, he is appealing, like generations of Southern politicians before him, to Southerners's fear of being controlled by a hostile, unsympathetic, and still foreign Northern nation...
...atmosphere of 1953 could only grow slowly anyway," he recruited readers from old P.M. and New York Compass subscription lists rather than attempt to mount an advertising campaign. Stone said in 1971 that he had figured only the paper's quality could sustain it, so he adopted a sober typography and straightforward tone. After eight cautious printers refused to help Stone publish his newsletter, he found two men who would. I.F. Stone's Weekly debuted...