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Turnbull says he has no other job. His only income is from the passerby who pay a dollar for the chance to stump him, he says...
...home the news was equally depressing. As Sportswriter Al J. Stump noted in American Heritage, unemployed protesters marched through Sacramento, the capital of California, with signs saying GROCERIES NOT GAMES! and OLYMPICS ARE OUTRAGEOUS! In Southern California, some social reformers were also indignant. "They're big sports, all right," said one bitter member of a group called the Technocrats. "Bringing Germans and Japs to town! Down with their damned circus!" The heads of state or royalty of the host countries had opened the ceremonies at the nine previous modern Olympics, but President Herbert Hoover, confronted with the worst domestic...
Guernica, a village of 10,000 souls, has a small munitions factory and barracks on its outskirts. Guernica is also the traditional capital of the Basques. To this town Spanish sovereigns, including Ferdinand & Isabella, went to swear by the stump of an ancient oak tree to protect the ancient privileges of the Basque people...
...campaign manager, no full-time fund raisers, no party encouragement, no state organizations, and a wife who says she will not stump for him. He lost the 1972 general election by the largest plurality in history. In 1980, South Dakota voters ousted him from the Senate after 18 years of service. But George McGovern, 61, the outspoken prairie populist and critic of the Viet Nam War, is running for President-again. Said he after announcing his candidacy at a press conference last week: "I think I've got a real shot at the nomination...
...occasionally strains to hit high notes. Brenneman especially shines in her solo, "Who Stole the Tarts," a song about the procedings of her trial as a pastry thief. In an amazing rapid-pace monologue, she imitates all the other characters at the trial, as she darts about the tree-stump proscenium...