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Kennedy, who had originally not planned to campaign in Wisconsin at all, decided to give it a last-minute try and flew in two days before the polls opened. Once on the scene, he put on a whirlwind dawn-to-dusk drive. Joking, laughing and punching at the air like a boxer, he drew excited crowds. But these efforts could not overcome Kennedy's difficulties or a President's ability to make optimistic news. Carter's early-morning TV statement hailing a "positive step" in Iran just as the polls opened appeared to help stem the Kennedy...
...before dawn...
Times Square simmers in July. Dodging early morning traffic on what always seems the hottest day of the summer, I wait for the ugly melody of the construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late...
...Sausalito they slept on a creaky fishing boat, waking at dawn. Is that why they call it golden? wondered Rick, staring off through a misty prism at the bridge. Two eggs and bacon, said Sammy to the waitress. They drove away from the high-way, on a wispy road through craggy moors. The road ascended, then dropped to beach level. Sammy felt sick. Is this it? he wondered, staring out the car window into the fog. Rick stopped the Dodge and they shuffled across the sand. All these beaches, muttered Rick. Sammy watched the ocean caress his feet, walking until...
...hunting-gathering society that flourished before the dawn of history, she argues, man and woman were equal. Then, some time during the neolithic revolution, man realized that semen made babies. The consequence: women were reduced in stature and left uneducated, housebound, perpetually pregnant...