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Buckley's high point came at a live scrimmage, the only time a coach wasn't telling him what plays to call. As is the custom at Patriot training sessions, first stringer Grogan and his backup Matt Cavanaugh each went in for 25 plays, while the lower-echelon quarterbacks took six snaps...
...sixties. Southwestern Ohio, adjacent to Kentucky, still bore the stamp of the South in those days. "When I went there," he says, "most things were still segregated--theaters, bowling alleys, some restaurants. It wasn't like the deep South; segregation wasn't legislated, it was just a matter of custom." So Gould joined with a group of other students to fight the customs, and won. "It was exhilarating for us," he says, "The system was tottering, it was ready to collapse, but it still needed a push. So one could indeed feel socially useful and indeed we were." He graduated...
Alter, an inveterate tinkerer, endeared himself in the mid-1950s to an earlier generation of Californians by introducing the first mass-produced balsa-wood and fiberglass surfboards. By 1960 he had become the world's leading supplier of the custom-made, polyure-thane-foam surfboard, which became a symbol of the California lifestyle...
Some people find it a supreme pleasure to ride in a limousine, but Diana Ross, 37, prefers self-propulsion. In midtown Manhattan, where she is recording a new album, Ross likes to ease on down the road on custom-made roller skates, while her chauffeur-driven black Mercedes trails her. Wired for music, Ross glides along to her album, The Boss, of a couple of years ago. She notes: "It's great dance music." But what about New York's perilous potholes? She admits that sometimes she does more rockin' than rollin', but the lady seldom...
...finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...