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...wouldn't use U.S. while running for the White House? (The patriotic initials were apparently the result of a bizarre clerical error at West Point, according to amateur historian Barbara Holland, author of Hail to the Chiefs.) Besides, Ulysses was hard to pronounce and harder to spell, and no one had ever heard of anyone named "Hiram" (his real first name...
...mouth, or migrate. Among the thousands who have left is 60-year-old Eugene Jones, who was laid off in September 1990. Like many of his generation, Jones never went past the sixth grade. "I can write my name and my address and stuff like that, but I cannot spell hardly anything," he says. He now lives in Virginia and has been searching for work around the region for eight months. Recently he drove his pickup truck five hours to Tennessee to try for a job on a road crew. At the construction office he was asked to fill...
When an army mutiny and rioting forced President Mobutu Sese Seko to join with the opposition in a coalition government last month, many Zairians rejoiced over what they hoped would spell the end of Mobutu's 26-year lock on power. But last week, as violence once more swept Zairian cities, the coalition was in a state of disarray -- and Mobutu was still there...
...forgetting. Mao Zedong once said he wanted the Chinese people to be a blank sheet of paper on which he could write anything he pleased. Throughout history, the Chinese have often obliged their rulers by volunteering to be such tabulae rasae. "Yes, that was a bad spell." "Yes, we suffered much." "No, let us not talk about it." The responses are the same, whether the period involved is the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists that embroiled the country in the '30s and '40s, or the epic struggle against Japanese invaders, or the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Notions...
...sifts the rowdy history of "bleeding Kansas" just before the Civil War. He notes 140 ways to spell the state's name, among them Ka, Kaal, Ka-Anjou and Kaw; the last being the present spelling of the name of the Native American tribe, now nearly extinct, that lived here before the coming of whites. Somewhat uneasily, he watches an all-woman ranch team castrating bull calves. He talks to old inhabitants who tell of monstrous floods and of hiding in "fraidy holes" -- storm cellars -- to wait out tornadoes...