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...crowd 'at Weeks' headquarters at the White Cliff resort in Plymouth was indicative of the kind of campaign Weeks has run. The crowd was gentile, mannered, and polite. To call it an upper-income group would be a ridiculous understatement...
...memo on Nixon's humor is probably the most humorous aspect of the entire situation." It has been that kind of oh-so-serious campaign, and even half a laugh is scarce in most reporters' copy. Fortunately, readers of the Times and other papers can resort to Columnists Russell Baker and Art Buchwald, who seem able to coax a smile and sometimes even a belly laugh out of the most somber events...
...couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception, there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. The boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them back to Tokyo, they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed the stronger of the two, suffers a stroke her children come rushing to her sickbed. She dies, leaving her husband alone--the children, of course...
...they seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They reach a perfect unity as they side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...
...both religion and black heritage, but the emphasis is on relentless drill in reading and math. "We're preparing them for predominantly white high schools," says Clements. "They won't be getting ghetto tests there." The school's stern discipline includes even paddling as a last resort. So while classes in neighborhood public schools are frequently disrupted by unruly children, the Holy Angels are serene. Explains Sixth-Grader Diamian Bellamy: "If you shoot spitballs in class or throw trays in the cafeteria like you do in public school, you're really in trouble. You might...