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...Pine Bluff, Ark., she was an average Middle American high school girl. In wartime Washington, or postwar Forest Hills, or more recently in establishmentarian, suburban Rye, N.Y., she was little more than part of the background?not spectacular, not social, not smart?and only dimly remembered by her neighbors. Then, about a year ago, as the wife of the U.S. Attorney General, she told a TV reporter that the November peace demonstration in Washington reminded her husband of a Russian revolution. That indiscretion made her a nine-day wonder. Instead of fading, however, the wonder has grown. This month...
...that he could get into the almost nightly high-stakes games. Once he mastered the game, "I never saw him lose," one Navy buddy says. "He might win $40 or $50 every night." Another remembers: "He was the finest poker player I ever played against. I once saw him bluff a lieutenant commander out of $1,500 with a pair of deuces...
...probably did, although there was considerable bluff in all of the saber-rattling, and that game is risky. At best, it can rarely work more than once. At worst, it can be called. If Hussein's army had been beaten and the U.S. had not intervened, the show of force would have been revealed as only a show?and the U.S. would have looked far weaker than before...
...notes the appearance, the hard and rectangular hair and clothing styles, the "bluff, hearty, and sarcastic conversational style" of suburban house-wives and suggests that, cheated of a career by the male-dominated standards around them, these women express their "masculinity" (society's primary calling-card to success and self-fulfillment) in the only form left to them...
...Arkansas's lonely dissenter, he came home to something of a hero's welcome. Several hundred Arkansans, unwilling to wait for his arrival at Little Rock, rode by wagon and horseback some 45 miles to De Valls Bluff to cheer his return. Later, the bishop received an unexpected dividend from the very declaration he had opposed.* Bismarck's Kulturkampf drove many persecuted German Catholics to the New World. Fitzgerald, a hearty, outgoing man who kept his home open to any traveler, managed to attract some of the refugees. There had been only 1,600 Catholics...