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...face it," she says, "they're using me." She is talking to two Channel 5 talk show hosts who think the public will want to know why Ms. McGraw --now a stylish 40 and a veteran of several box office disasters--is here in Boston publicly plugging VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America, known in the trade as "the domestic Peace Corps"). "The people from VISTA have really impressed me with--gosh, I don't know how to say this--their social awareness, their desire to make the world a better place...
...miniature car raceway, empty and sheeted in snow. It is difficult to look hard at such a picture without being overtaken by a sudden, intimate, desolating sense of the particular strangeness and beauty of 20th-century civilization, and without realizing simultaneously that this exact, simple configuration of forms--the vista of T-shaped streetlamps, icicles on an orange iron railing, a depthless blue sky--is poignant, unrepeatable, resplendent with mystery...
...instant I thought it was our wing beacons. "Jeesus, what was that," I said as it flashed twice more, much brighter. "Lightinin', damn it. Don't you know what lightinin' is boy?" Lightining. Building in distant flashes, growing in intensity as we moved further east, showing a pearly, limitless vista. Silver veins tearing from cloud to cloud quietly. It clawed below, ripping New York silently...
...concept of public service among our people. A mandatory system of national service (like the ones that France, Germany and Switzerland have, for example) would allow every young person the opportunity to serve our society either in the military or in another form of public service (e.g., Peace Corps, Vista, hospital volunteers, community organizing, etc.). The human resources and enthusiasm that this system would channel into constructive tasks would be considerable. This might make possible programs to clean up the environment and rebuild our cities that would have been far too expensive even to contemplate attempting if everyone who participated...
...Aleknas: "I was looking at the name and not the man. I realize that now." Said Steelworker Allen: "Strength is what we're seeking, and you have to ask, 'How much strength does the man have?' " Tren Miller, 30, a high school science teacher in La Vista, Neb., had hoped that the "Kennedy excitement would come forth again. It didn't, and I've been disappointed. For someone who's been in politics as long as he has, he should be more articulate." Others were surprised at how ill-prepared Kennedy seemed at many...