Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show Governor Robert Ray on the hustings-talking about taxes. In Ohio, where they are facing a Garth-directed challenge from Richard Celeste, their ads stress incumbent Governor Jim Rhodes' tax-saving administrative abilities and show that he is capable of, among other things, leading the All-Ohio Youth Marching Band. And in Michigan, they have taken on the task of electing an entire Republican legislature; one spot shows a herd of zebras and ostriches racing for cover while the narrator accuses Democrats of running from the tax issue...
...corner of the third floor where the 13 female trainees are quartered. Twenty additional women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...
...century. Plainly, the Cardinals had opted for a long pontificate. Just as plainly, they had chosen a man of extraordinary qualities and experience. A newspaper in Lima, Peru, greeted Wojtyla's election with the headline LABORER POET ACTOR PRIEST POPE. That and more: quarryman and factory work-in his youth, member of Poland's anti-Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch. On top of that he is more of an athlete and outdoorsman than any Pope in memory, one who loves to ski in Poland's Tatra Mountains, to kayak or canoe...
...life in Poland was hard. Wojtyla's mother died when he was nine and he was brought up by his father, who subsisted for the most part on an army sergeant's pension. Though many Cardinals?and Popes?have been trained from early youth in the hothouse atmosphere of minor seminaries, Wojtyla went to ordinary high school. He attended Mass each morning and headed a religious society, but equally strong adolescent passions were literature and the theater. He was the producer and lead actor in a school troupe that toured southeastern Poland doing Shakespeare and modern Polish plays...
Happy endings are not the Kyle style. But time is a great provider. Today, the author informs us, the castle has been reconstructed as a youth hostel. Such truths are comforting; but it is fiction like Black Camelot that makes history live...