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...handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old daughter had pledged her allegiance : "After the campaign, we asked her who she was for, and she said, 'Gold-wah-wah.' " On college campuses, where Goldwater buttons and sprouting Goldwater clubs symbolize a bold challenge to liberal orthodoxy, he is an authentic hero; Young Americans for Freedom, a band of youthful conservatives that Goldwater actively supports, has grown from 100 members to 23,000 in one year. Shortly after...
...ceremony more feather-filled than a pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain...
...Perfect Victorian. No man better symbolizes the strengths and hopes of independent Nigeria than Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (pronounced Bah-lay-wah). At 47, he is slight of figure (5 ft. 8½ in., 136 Ibs.), and his wispy mustache and greying, crew-cut beard make him look older than he is. Reserved and unassuming, he is a rare bird in a land famed for flamboyant politicians, was once described by an African magazine as a "turtledove among falcons...
...Wah-wah-taysee, little firefly, Little, flitting white-fire insect, Little, dancing white-fire creature, Light me with your little candle, Ere upon my bed I lay me, Ere in sleep I close my eyelids...
Huddled under twin mountain peaks that the Indians called Wah-Hah-Toyas (Breasts of the World), the Colorado town of Walsenburg is a battered relic of the Old West, scarred by deserted downtown stores, unpainted houses, potholed streets. Once a thriving coal town, Walsenburg sank into slow decline when its customers started switching to oil and gas in the 1920s. The population gradually shrank by one-third, to 5,500, and the town's prime source of income became federal and state welfare handouts. Then, last year, the exasperated women of Walsenburg rebelled...