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Shortly before 6:30 each weekday, the gray Toyota station wagon glides down the driveway and stops a few feet beyond the steel security fence in Great Falls, Va. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road...
...ORIGINAL GOAL was to take a year or two off from my life and travel around the world. No deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...
...pretty low key. The policemen were pretty nice in general. I didn't resist arrest by going limp or anything. It seemed that the police were rough on those that did by sort of throwing them into the wagon. Other than that...
...quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody Marys and being chauffeured around in a Chevrolet station wagon while the Rolls is being repaired...
...only because the middle class is so sacred in the U.S. that even its potential shrinkage is so controversial. Virtually everyone agrees that America needs to maintain its middle class. While the split-level home and station wagon are modern inventions, the stabilizing influence of a large middle class has been highly valued for quite a bit longer. "Of the three classes," observed Euripides, "it is the middle that saves the country...