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EARLY IN John R. Coleman's working-class sojourn, his boss sends him off to deepen a cylindrical hole to make way for a standpipe. Coleman dutifully shuffles off, squeezes his frame down into the muddy pit, and with cramped movements heaves irregular clods back up towards the light. Ill-aimed shovel-loads occasionally fall back on him, but Coleman admits to rather liking the task. And just a few feet away, he notes, another submerged laborer toils in another clammy shaft...
COLEMAN SAYS he vowed to make his sojourn when he saw construction workers in New York rain nails on an anti-war rally of largely student protesters. He would resolve, or at least understand, this seeming conflict, Coleman intones gravely. But he responds with his generalization again. Political thought, he says, is a creature of academia--it does not belong in the ditches...
...would go back tomorrow if I could," he says with a wistful smile. "I never will adjust myself to living out of Africa. Every time I have left it has been a temporary sojourn." But then he laughs, and nods toward the large, base-relief map of Africa above his desk, and adds, "In some ways, I never really leave...
...footing the bill it makes the prospects for a good time all the better. If, however, you have to practice day in and day out, a Florida vacation might not seem all that attractive. For Harvard's spring teams, most of which are going south, the one week sojourn is the final stage of preparation for the opening of regular season competition in early April...
Quite by coincidence, the second session of the 93rd U.S. Congress began last week on the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger. But there were very few tigers in evidence among the returning 431 Congressmen and 100 Senators. Their sojourn among the voters back home during the 29-day holiday recess exposed them to an American public that was angry, suspicious, impatient and sour, and one, moreover, that was sharply divided on how to solve the nation's problems. Energy shortages, exploding prices, dwindling jobs, all conspired to make 1974, for most legislators, loom...