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...refrigerator car less than 100 yards from a heavily used Southern Pacific railroad main line. His father, who had brought the family West after fire destroyed their farm in Checotah, Okla., was a $40-a-week yardman. This and other highlights in Haggard's life are easy to trace in his songs...
Stoppard, with his large, luminous brown eyes that seem to pierce both inward and outward, is a bit of a moon gazer. His background, like his voice, has a trace of the exotic. He was born in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, in 1937 as Thomas Straussler. When he was two years old, his father, a doctor, moved to Singapore. As the Japanese began infiltrating Southeast Asia, Tom, his mother and his older brother were sent on to India. (His father later died in a Japanese prison camp.) Tom learned English in Darjeeling. Taking his stepfather's name, he arrived in England...
...patrolman caught on the take used to be prosecuted quickly and forgotten; now he is often "turned" and used to trap higher-ups. The spread of uniformed informers is matched by the proliferation of bugs planted everywhere but inside badges. A blizzard of accountants and other financial sleuths now trace credit cards and checking accounts because, says Jonathan Goldstein, U.S. prosecutor for New Jersey, often "it's just a matter of finding the money...
There is even a trace of institutional chauvinism among the numerous Kennedy curios: a black wooden chair that was in the White House during the Kennedy presidency bears the wry inscription "The only proper seat of government is the Harvard chair...
...initial wartime victories, military graves registration was efficient. Soldiers' bodies were cremated and the ashes returned to their families. After Japan's cataclysmic defeats, however, survivors had no opportunity to recover the bodies of their fallen comrades, and tens of thousands of men disappeared without a trace...