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...paper wrinkled from being stashed in the author's backpack during a year's travel. It's all grubby and tough, rambling along with McGinnis as he trudges and airlifts back and forth across Alaska. The style is rough, unfluent, and unpolished, with sentence fragments and single words often strung together or chopped up in an outdoorsy gruffness that is quite suitable for the ramshackle and breathtaking world McGinnis explores, though too often it sounds like plain old bad writing. But throughout there is ruddy, workmanlike honesty. Most importantly, McGinnis' rich reporting presents the whole picture with unblinking insistence...
This is not to say that Johnson's interviews and bits of gossip are not interesting as isolated bits of historical trivia; many are funny and revealing. But strung together they provide only a fragmented and incomplete view of Johnson's life. At their best these anecdotes do provide insight--but less about Johnson than about the individual being interviewed...
...U.A.W.'s efforts paid off last week in New Jersey. When the state's purchase and property division decided to buy 450 Datsun 210s because they were $700 per car cheaper than comparable American cars, autoworkers immediately strung picket lines around the statehouse in Trenton and demanded that the deal be quashed. On the second day of the protest, both houses of the legislature unanimously passed a hastily drafted bill to prohibit the state from buying any cars not assembled...
...high-strung punter," says Steve Flach, and he should know...
...their lone escape route sealed by cinder blocks. When a rancher named Clem Anderson gets his coffin in the mail, its meaning is clear. But after a few sleepless weeks, Clem forgets to worry. Authorities find his body lying in a ditch near his overturned jeep. A razorsharp wire strung between a tree and a telephone pole has severed his head as Clem drove down his ranch road at dusk...