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Leon Malard sat at his small kitchen table, covered with a blue plastic cloth, and with strong, thick fingers stroked the stubble on his chin. His black hair was cropped to its roots, his glasses coated at the edges with the grit from a morning of tilling in his stunted cornfield, which hugs a bluff above the Missouri River between Bismarck and Cannon Ball...
After walking five miles in the dark from the Rumanian village of Valea lui Mihai, Karoly, his wife Agnes and their two children crouched for hours in thick underbrush near the Hungarian border. Finally, after a group of Rumanian border soldiers marched by, the couple dashed across the so-called Green Line, children clinging to their backs. Once they were on Hungarian soil, the refugees were driven 30 miles by local police to Debrecen and given food, clothing and beds in a government-funded shelter. The police issued the family temporary residence permits, while other officials began organizing jobs...
...chin down. Accepting discipline was harder, and controlling emotion was hardest of all. "Fear is like fire," he never tired of saying. "It can cook for you. It can heat your house. Or it can burn it down." D'Amato's neck-bridging exercises enlarged Tyson's naturally thick stem to nearly 20 in., and the rest of him filled out in concrete blocks. Like every old trainer, D'Amato tried to instill a courtliness at the same time as he was installing the heavy machinery. "My opponent was game and gutsy," the 17-year-old Tyson remarked after dusting...
...rainy morning, the United Paperworkers' union hall in Jay, Me., is thick with cigarette smoke, coffee cups and strikers. Some of the men and women are back from 6 a.m. picket duty at the nearby International Paper mill; others, despite the weather, will report for the afternoon. The union was locked out of one IP plant in Alabama 15 months ago and went on strike last June at three mills -- the one in Jay and two others in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- because of contract disputes. Despite the length of the strike, the members are hanging tough: only...
...process of growing, being able to watch things growing and dying and being reborn. Perhaps the first real pleasure, though, is simply tactile -- the sense, when one bends on one's knees on a warm spring morning, of the vast solid mass under one's hands, the thick, flat rotundity of the earth. Or perhaps the first real pleasure is a vision of possibilities. Three yellow roses might look good here; there's room for some tomatoes over there, or perhaps a row of asters. People planting their first plots tend to be too practical, determined to labor over beans...