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...black had been defeated in an Indiana primary, reducing their membership in the House to 20, blacks had hoped to lift the total back to 21 with a victory by Democrat Robert Clark, 55, in Mississippi. As in 1982, however, Clark lost to Webb Franklin, 42, a former circuit-court judge. This was despite a redistricting that placed blacks in the majority. The number of Hispanics in the House remained at eight...
Since, "you can't be young and miserable forever," as she puts it, Martin eventually won an assignment to report on the Washington social circuit. She enjoyed "that nice, healthy vulgarity" of the Lyndon Johnson regime, particularly when L.B.J. invited her and several other women reporters at a White House party to come upstairs. "We stayed for two hours, eating popcorn from a silver bowl, while he swore he had never wanted to be President...
Years ago, before St. Henry's Roman Catholic Church was built in Pompano Beach, they had a sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
...India? His face still unchanged, but his body now wrapped in a robe, you can imagine Murray deadpanning. "I went to the East in search of meaning, and all I got was this robe." In return for watching Murray stare catatonically into space at various spots on the introspection circuit, we can feel only like we've intruded on some sort of home movie: lots of pretty pictures, clear evidence the trip indeed took place, our host conspicuously juxtaposed against exotic environments...
...keynote address, Radcliffe visiting scholar Susan W. Ware described Roosevelt, who also worked as U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, newspaper columnist, crusader for social causes, and college lecture circuit speakers, as "the 20th century's most influential female political leader. Ware is a specialist on women's roles in the New Deal...