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...former President, father-in-law of a former statistician for the + Washington Senators, a former team, was appointed the arbitrator last week in the matter of the overextended playoffs. The league championship series were more than the umpires had bargained for. Nixon played football at Whittier College, but he has been around the language of hardball most of his life. "That was not my ball park. That was their ball park," Team Player John Mitchell once replied when asked about secret campaign funds. "In this Cabinet," Nixon observed, "you win some and you lose some." And some are rained...
...Ontario. "It means our historical foundation becomes a nice story that has no connection to reality." To Denise Olsen, a law student and mother of three in Bountiful, Utah, "it's another evidence to me that things have gone awry in the church." A devout Mormon couple in Whittier, Calif., in a letter to friends explaining why they have left the church, say new revelations about the Mormons' founding prophet have destroyed their belief...
...plane crossed the continental shelf. She glowed, laughed and lofted tiny barbs of irreverence. When native dancers appeared barebreasted, White House aides were aghast. But she watched admiringly and applauded. TIME's Bonnie Angelo, who accompanied Mrs. Nixon, recalled last week, "I saw Pat Ryan, the pretty schoolteacher from Whittier, Calif., emerge from another era and flower for a few precious days...
Elderhostelers are generally seeking adventure, but many arrive with specific goals. Nearly 60% have college degrees, and 30% have been schoolteachers. Edwin Slocum, 91, a former accountant from Van Nuys, Calif., took a computer course at Whittier. His reason: "When my grandchildren begin talking about computers they lose me fast." Estella Bagnell, 85, a former bookkeeper now living in Tampa, took a course in writing family history at Rollins College in Florida because she wants to put her research on the genealogy of the Bagnell family into narrative form for her eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren...
Elderhostel provides a camaraderie that many older people find missing from their lives. Says Mary Fox, 68, a former teacher: "The courses are terrific, but the people themselves are the best." At the end of Whittier College's program, Louise O'Farrell, 63, a retired bookkeeper, and Margaret Berlier, 72, a former teacher, made plans to meet again in London at an August Elderhostel. O'Farrell has attended 20 Elderhostel courses so far, ranging from entomology and botany at Eastern Kentucky University to Victorian art at the University of London. Says she: "Getting the Elderhostel catalogue...