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...find nothing critical to say about it." Because the 88-acre island is out of the way compared with most tourist attractions, the memorial probably will not lure crowds of visitors-which will be just fine with the bird watchers and woods lovers who frequent it. T.R., a staunch conservationist and outdoorsman, would also have approved...
This distrust he successfully communicated to his ten children, not one of whom ever deviated from the conservative faith of the father or from his staunch Roman Catholicism. "Perhaps the reason we did not rebel," thinks Buckley, "is that Father was a dissenter all his life. Had he been an establishmentarian, there might have been a greater impulse to rebel." In the influence that he exercised over his brood, until his death in 1958 at 77, Buckley Sr. bore considerable resemblance to that other patriarch of Irish descent, Joseph P. Kennedy. But beyond the Irishness, the Buckleys...
...build. His wife Violet often chauffeured him about in the family Hillman on his political rounds. He wore frayed clothes, smoked a little black pipe and cultivated the Englishman's love of puttering about a garden. The son of a lawyer, he attended Oxford and was a staunch Tory until he visited a London slum. The squalor turned the young lawyer into a social worker and socialist. When the Labor Party split in 1935 over the issue of pacifism, Attlee, a World War I major and no pacifist, emerged as its leader. He remolded the party into a more...
...universal" check, along with its subspecies the "counter" check, remains a staunch standby of Americans who find themselves out of modern, magnetically coded personal checks, credit cards or even old-fashioned cash. But in an age when 44 million checks are cashed and processed daily by speedy check-reading machines, the uncoded universal kind is about as handy as wampum-and the Federal Reserve System would like to see it go the same...
Upset Mothers. As the chain grew over the years, the papers developed much the same look. In general, they use wire services to cover national and international news - to which they give front-page display - while their own reporters cover local events. The papers follow a conservative line, are staunch civic boosters. The Repository has campaigned for the establishment of a professional-football hall of fame in Canton. It has been similarly attentive to the locally based Timken Roller Bearing Co., world's largest tapered roller-bearing manufacturer. "I can't remember the Rep ever speaking out against...