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...Washington, I myself had to board a flatboat and then a steamboat, disembarking at Pittsburgh to complete another arduous journey by overland stagecoach. Even the lure of a day in the capital could not persuade more than a Fraction of my ardent partisans to undergo weeks of such travail...
Many factors had contributed to this. Business and academic leaders, parents and students had worked to defuse the issue. No major new desegregation plans were introduced. Said Mayor Kevin White: "We start this school year with fewer transfers, less busing and more stability." At least Boston was spared the travail of Louisville and environs, where once again anti-busers clashed with police, smashed windows, set bonfires and had to be dispersed by tear gas. In Boston, as elsewhere, one could hardly speak of peace; at best it was a truce...
Truly Sorry. C.D.B. Bryan's Friendly Fire follows the Mullens' travail step by step. A Connecticut-based novelist (The Great Dethriffe, P.S. Wilkinson) and stepson of the late John O'Hara, Bryan spent weeks interviewing the Mullens. He conducted his own investigation to corroborate the official version of how Michael was killed. Muffling his own indignation, he tells how the bureaucracy added insult to loss. An anguished war-protest letter from Peg Mullen to Richard Nixon brought back a note from a White House clerk assuring her the President was "truly sorry" that her son had died...
...educated young Americans find jobs, if only ones for which they are over qualified, and during a lifetime they will still make much more money than youths with less education. In the process, however, the college-educated underemployed aggravate a social problem even more disruptive than their own: the travail of the non-college youths for whom there are no jobs...
...lapse into repellent pet names and quasi-erotic baby talk ("I feel myself curled up snugly in old mother wallaby's pouch. Is mother wallaby soft and tender to her little one?"). But these women also inspired some of her most candid passages about literary ambition and travail. With them she shared an intensely personal feminism, a concern for the fate of the talented woman in Edwardian society...