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When Robert Healy, a 30-year political correspondent and now columnist for The Boston Globe, was covering the 1960 Presidential primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson pulled him aside. "You don't think that skinny little guy will be president, do you?" he said, pointing to John F. Kennedy...
...innermost thoughts in these diaries--which now fill four fat black notebooks--wringing out his feelings, probing his often masked motives. In public, Cuomo's belligerent words often land like karate chops. In the diaries, he is far less defiant. Hence, a recent entry agreed with a newspaper columnist's criticism. "His reference to my legalisms and pedantry," wrote Cuomo, "is an accurate one." Another entry tried to analyze the change of his mood: "I felt an unhappiness again the last few days, not a depression but a sense of emptiness. It usually comes after the euphoria. It's wearying...
...Statistics found that young families in 1983 spent 18% less of their budget on home furnishings and 32% less on clothes than young families in 1973. There is, to be sure, a so-called superclass of high-living yuppies, as young urban professional Baby Boomers were dubbed by Syndicated Columnist Bob Greene in early 1983. But according to the U.S. Census Bureau, only about 4.5 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 40 make more than $35,000 a year. More than six times as many--some 30 million Baby Boomers--make less than $15,000 a year...
...year-olds stated that "raising children is a main satisfaction in my life." Revering and caring for children has served as an antidote to some of the egocentric tendencies of the Me generation. "We were taught that we were the most important people in the world," says Columnist Greene, who became a father at age 35. "If you have a child, someone is more important than...
Porterfield's case hardly suffices as a rallying cry to storm the barriers of discrimination. As Chicago Tribune Columnist Mike Royko put it, "I might understand PUSH's concern for Porterfield if he had been flung out of the station door and forced to cadge quarters on a street corner . . . (but) he hasn't exactly become a member of America's underclass...