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...taught at the Naval War College and Stanford University, and was president at the Citadel. Since 1981 he has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution, an independent conservative research center that is located on the Stanford campus. Stockdale also served on the board of the ultra-right-wing Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois, from 1989 to 1991 and contributed to its monthly periodical, Chronicles, at a time when the organization came under fire from other conservatives for being "insensitive" to anti-Semitism. Stockdale's articles, however, dwelled on his own Vietnam experience...
...that would not be a cause for complaint. But the fact is that they have an extraordinary subject, and you can't help wishing they had been completely up to it. For that reluctant catcher is a woman named Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis). She is the star of the Rockford Peaches, which belongs to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, an organization that remains one of the fascinating footnotes in the history of sports and feminism...
...Americans racially prejudiced against the Japanese? Occasionally the accusation rings true. Would Americans be upset if, say, Canadian investors offered to buy the Seattle Mariners? Probably no more than they are that Canadians already own the Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays. Says Linda Cunningham, editor of the Rockford, Ill., Register-Star: "There is an increasing willingness to refer to the 'Japs,' and to talk openly about things that might have been said only privately in their own living rooms. There now seems to be a respectability attached to a subtle return of racism...
...entertainment giant to Matsushita Electric Industrial for $6.1 billion. How could he, they asked, sell to foreigners the studio that made To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would now censor Hollywood's ideas. Even the Bush Administration raised some objections to the deal...
...boasts that sales of high-quality mallets and sets have doubled in the past three years, while the number of croquet clubs has grown from five in 1977 to over 300 this year. More people are buying backyard sets, and public courts are springing up in Tulsa, Phoenix and Rockford, Ill. The final round of the New York Championship Croquet Tournament was played on June 17 at public courts in Manhattan's Central Park before a hushed crowd...