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...Lyndhurst Foundation. a University of Alabama-connected philanthropic organization that has sponsored many health care programs in the South and is now branching out into education. He "found a connection," and over spring vacation Lazar took a 24-hour bus ride from Chicago to Birmingham to meet this stranger...
...stranger to overcoming adversity, something he did daily, and spectacularly, in the Marines. "I committed myself to them. I made people sick, I was so meticulous. I played their game, and kept getting meritorious promotions." After only two years--on a virtually unprecedented ascent in the Marines--he became a sergeant...
Schmidt became quite irritated at one point, when the subject of growing pacifism in Western Europe was brought up. The U.S. was no stranger to similar sentiments in the past, he pointed out forcefully, but Europe had not wavered in its allegiance to the alliance. Schmidt reminded Reagan that the U.S., unlike West Germany, no longer had a draft, and therefore was less susceptible to the youthful protests that have bedeviled Bonn...
...golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though a stranger to the fine points of the tax code, Mayor Daley's man characteristically acquiesced to the wishes of his party...
...sunny remission; his son Billy, a college dropout, shows up and is equally delighted. After a lifetime spent working at factory jobs he hated, Dad is finally enjoying himself. The only one unhappy about all this is Mom, who fears that her husband of 50 years has become a stranger. She throws an extended tantrum. Before too long, Dad is back in the nursing home. Tremont mourns: "He's gone, totally, completely gone." Giving up at last, Tremont packs Billy into a car and drives cross-country. His destination is Philadelphia, where he grew up, and yet another sojourn...